Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-02-29
Phys.Lett. B386 (1996) 247-257
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
revised and extended version, 16 pages latex, 2 postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00975-6
From the LEP precision data and the measurement of the W-boson mass, upon excluding the observables Rb, Rc in a combined fit of the top-quark mass, Mt, and the Higgs-boson mass, MH, within the Standard Model, we find the weak 1sigma bound of MH<900GeV. Stronger upper bounds on MH, sometimes presented in the literature, rely heavily on the inclusion of Rb in the data sample. Upon including Rb, the quality of the fit drastically decreases, and by carefully analyzing the dependence of the fit results on the set of experimental input data we conclude that these stronger bounds are not reliable. Moreover, the stronger bounds on MH are lost if the deviation between theory and experiment in Rb is ascribed to contributions of new physics. Replacing swbar^2(LEP) by the combined value swbar^2(LEP+SLD) in the data sample leads to a bound of MH<430GeV at the 1sigma level. The value of swbar^2(SLD) taken alone, however, gives rise to fit results for MH which are in conflict with MH<65.2GeV from direct searches.
Dittmaier Stefan
Schildknecht Dieter
Weiglein Georg
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