Higgs Searches at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar Collider

TL;DR

This paper summarizes recent Higgs boson search results at Fermilab's Tevatron, highlighting the progress in setting upper limits on production cross sections and excluding certain mass ranges for the standard model Higgs.

Contribution

It provides updated experimental limits on Higgs production, demonstrating the Tevatron's increasing sensitivity and exclusion of specific Higgs mass values.

Findings

Tevatron limits approach standard model predictions

Excluded a 170 GeV Higgs at 95% confidence level

Progress in Higgs search sensitivity

Abstract

Searching for and potential discovery of Higgs boson(s) both within and beyond the standard model is perhaps the most visible physics goal of the current Fermilab Tevatron program. In this proceeding, recent results from both the CDF and D\O experiments based on analyses of datasets with integrated luminosities between 1.7 and 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ are summarized. The combined Tevatron cross section upper limits on the production of a standard model Higgs boson are fast approaching the expected standard model values for a wide mass range. Particularly, the Tevatron has now excluded a standard model Higgs boson with a mass of 170 GeV at 95% C.L.