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This paper describes flavour independent searches for hadronically decaying neutral Higgs bosons in the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The collected data-set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of around 610 pb-1. The and processes are considered, with direct Higgs boson decays into hadrons. No evidence for Higgs boson production is found, and cross-section limits are set as a function of the Higgs boson masses. No explicit assumptions are made on the underlying physics beyond the Standard Model, allowing interpretation of the data in a large class of models.
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The DELPHI Collaboration. Flavour independent searchesfor hadronically decaying neutral Higgs bosons. Eur. Phys. J. C 44, 147–159 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02353-3
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