  We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson in final states with
an electron or muon and a hadronically decaying tau lepton in association with
zero, one, or two or more jets using data corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of up to 7.3 fb^{-1} collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab
Tevatron collider. The analysis is sensitive to Higgs boson production via
gluon gluon fusion, associated vector boson production, and vector boson
fusion, and to Higgs boson decays to tau lepton pairs or W boson pairs.
Observed (expected) limits are set on the ratio of 95% C.L. upper limits on the
cross section times branching ratio, relative to those predicted by the
Standard Model, of 14 (22) at a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV and 7.7 (6.8) at
165 GeV.
