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

/ Authors

Aleph collaboration, Delphi collaboration, L3 Collaboration, Opal Collaboration, T. Group

/ 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.