Large Standard Model Higgs at LEP

TL;DR

This paper reports on the LEP experiments' search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at energies between 192 and 202 GeV, finding no significant excess and setting a lower mass limit of 107.9 GeV/c^2.

Contribution

The paper provides combined results from LEP data at high energies, establishing a new lower bound on the Higgs boson mass.

Findings

No significant excess observed over background

Lower bound on Higgs mass set at 107.9 GeV/c^2

Data collected at energies between 192 and 202 GeV

Abstract

In 1999 the LEP experiments collected data at centre of mass energies between 192 and 202 GeV for about 900 pb-1 integrated luminosity. Combined results are presented for the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson. No statistically significant excess has been observed when compared to Standard Model background expectation which can be translated into a lower bound on the mass of the Higgs boson at 107.9 GeV/c^2 at 95 % confidence level.