Search for resonant diphoton production with the D0 detector

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jun 12;102(23):231801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.231801. Epub 2009 Jun 12.

Abstract

We present a search for a narrow resonance in the inclusive diphoton final state using approximately 2.7 fb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp Collider. We observe good agreement between the data and the background prediction, and set the first 95% C.L. upper limits on the production cross section times the branching ratio for decay into a pair of photons for resonance masses between 100 and 150 GeV. This search is also interpreted in the context of several models of electroweak symmetry breaking with a Higgs boson decaying into two photons.