Higgs searches at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reports on the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Tevatron collider, combining results from CDF and D0 experiments, and excludes certain mass ranges with high confidence.

Contribution

It provides the first combined analysis of Higgs search results from Tevatron experiments, setting new exclusion limits in the 158-175 GeV/c^2 mass range.

Findings

Excluded Higgs mass range 158-175 GeV/c^2 at 95% confidence level

Used up to 5.9 fb^{-1} of data from Tevatron

Combined results improve sensitivity over individual analyses

Abstract

The search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV performed by CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron collider is reported in this paper. The Higgs candidate events are reconstructed using different final states in order to optimize the sensitivity in the full range of the Higgs mass. The presented results use different statistical samples collected by the Tevatron up to 5.9 1/fb. Combining the most updated limits provided by the two experiments for all the final states analysed, the Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded at 95% C.L. in the mass range 158 - 175 GeV/c^2, in good agreement with the prediction for the analysed data sample.