Preliminary results of the Standard Model Higgs Boson search at LEP in 2000

Abstract

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson is performed using the data collected by the four LEP experiments at center-of-mass energies between 202 GeV and 209 GeV. An average luminosity of 140 $p{b}^{-1}$ per experiment has been analyzed. A 2.6 $\sigma$ excess is observed in the LEP-wide combination for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of around 114 GeV. All results are preliminary.

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