A reassessment of the luminosity and centre-of-mass energy conditions needed
to exclude/discover a Higgs boson signal at LEP 2 is presented, both for the
neutral Higgs boson predicted in the context of the Standard Model and for the
lightest neutral Higgs boson of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. This
reconsideration is based on the results prepared before the start of LEP 2 and on
recent studies incorporating more up-to-date knowledge of the performance of the
four LEP experiments at LEP 2 energies.
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