Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP
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Preliminary results from the four LEP experiments using data collected at 189 GeV have shown no evidence for the Standard Model Higgs boson. The preliminary 95% confidence level lower limits on the SM Higgs boson mass from ALEPH, DELPHI, OPAL, and L3 are 90.4 GeV/c, 94.1 GeV/c, 95.5 GeV/c, and 95.2 GeV/c, respectively. When LEP finishes in the year 2000, each experiment expects to collect 200 pb−1 of data at 200 GeV. These data will allow the discovery of the SM Higgs boson with a mass lower than about 105 GeV/c. Assuming that no new evidence for the SM Higgs boson is found, the mass exclusion limit would be approximately 110 GeV/c.
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