Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in final states with photons or taus at the Tevatron

Abstract

Although the sensitivity to a low mass Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron is highest for channels involving the H → bb̄ decay, other channels contribute significantly to the combined Higgs search. We report the results of searches for the Higgs boson in the diphoton and ditau final states using up to 8.5 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF and D0 detectors at √s = 1.96 TeV. Both gluon fusion and associated production processes are exploited. The diphoton and ditau channels contribute appreciably to the overall Higgs sensitivity at the Tevatron, despite the small branching ratio to the diphoton final state in the SM.