Searches for the Standard Model Higgs at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reports on searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron, using data from CDF and D0, setting upper limits on production cross sections without observing a signal.

Contribution

It presents the first combined SM Higgs cross section limit from 14 analysis channels at the Tevatron, improving the search methodology.

Findings

No excess signal observed above background

Upper limits set at 95% confidence level

First combined cross section limit from D0 analyses

Abstract

Recent preliminary results obtained by the CDF and D0 collaborations on searches for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in p bar{p} collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron are discussed. The data, corresponding to integrated luminosities between 260 - 950 pb^{-1}, show no excess of a signal above the expected background in any of the decay channels examined. Instead, upper limits at 95% Confidence Level (C.L.) on the cross section are established. For the first time, a combined SM cross section limit based on 14 orthogonal analysis channels from DO is presented.