Searches for Higgs Bosons Decaying into Photons: Preliminary Combined Results Using LEP Data Collected at Energies up to 209 GeV

Abstract

This note describes preliminary LEP-combined results of searches for Higgs bosons decaying into photons. The analyses use data collected at sqrt(s)~88-209 GeV. Using the combined data for H -> gamma gamma, a lower bound of 108.2 GeV is set at the 95% confidence level for the ``benchmark'' fermiophobic Higgs boson.

7 pages, 4 figures. Figures are supplied as .eps files. Submitted to the EPS '01 conference in Budapest, and the Lepton-Photon '01 conference in Rome