Flavour Independent Search for Hadronically Decaying Neutral Higgs Bosons at LEP

Abstract

Hadronic decays of Higgs bosons, not necessarily into b-quarks, have been searched for using data collected at LEP-2. Such searches are complementary to the usual Standard Model Higgs searches and lead to more model-independence. Preliminary results obtained by the four LEP collaborations are presented for the hZ production mechanism (using the q-qbarq-qbar, q-qbarnu-nubar and q-qbarl+l- channels) and combined for the first time.

7 pages, 2 figures. Figures are supplied as .eps files. Sumbitted to the EPS '01 conference in Budapest, and the Lepton-Photon '01 conference in Rome