  A search has been performed for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the data
sample collected with the ALEPH detector at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies up
to 209GeV. An excess of 3sigma beyond the background expectation is found,
consistent with the production of the Higgs boson with a mass near 114GeV/c2.
Much of this excess is seen in the four-jet analyses, where three high purity
events are selected.
