| Abstract: | A search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a fermion pair, and decaying to WW, is performed with the data collected
by the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 191 to 209 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity
of 453.2 pb-1. Thirteen exclusive selections are developed according to the different final state topologies. No statistically significant
evidence for a Higgs boson decaying into a WW pair has been found. An upper limit is derived, as a function of the Higgs boson
mass, on the product of the e+e-→Hff̄ cross section and the H→WW branching ratio. The data on the search for H→WW are combined with previously published ALEPH
results on the search for H→γγ, to significantly extend the limits on the mass of a fermiophobic Higgs boson. |
