24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
US/Eastern timezone

Search for a Light CP-Odd and Scaler Higgs in Upsilon Data

28 Jul 2009, 15:00
20m
McGregor Center, Room B

McGregor Center, Room B

Wayne State University
Higgs Physics Higgs Physics II

Speaker

Prof. Yury Kolomensky (University of California, Berkeley)

Description

We search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson, A^0, in the radiative decay of Y(3S) --> gamma A^0, A^0 --> tau+ tau-, tau+ --> e+ nu_e nubar_tau or tau+ --> mu+ nu_mu nubar_tau. The data sample contains 122 million Y(3S) events collected with the BaBar detector. We find no evidence for a narrow structure in the studied mass region of 4.03 < m_{A^0} < 10.10 GeV/c^2 and set the 90% C.L. upper limits on the branching fraction product BR(Y(3S) --> gamma A^0) x BR(A^0 --> tau+ tau-) in that mass range. We also set an upper limit on the tau-decays of the recently discovered eta_b meson.

Authors

Owen Long (University of California Riverside) TBA

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