We report on the results of a search for standard model Higgs
bosons produced in association with W bosons from p anti-p collisions
at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV. The search uses a data sample corresponding to
approximately 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. Events consistent with the
W --> l nu and H --> bb-bar signature are selected by triggering on
a high-p(t) electron or muon candidate and tagging one or two of the jet
candidates as having originated from b quarks. A neural network filter
rejects a fraction of tagged charm and light flavor jets, increasing the
b-jet purity in the sample and thereby reducing the background to Higgs
boson production. We observe no excess l nu bb-bar production beyond
the background expectation, and we set 95% confidence level upper limits
on the production cross section times branching fraction sigma(p anti-p
--> WH) . BR(H --> bb-bar) ranging from 3.9 to 1.3 pb, for specific
Higgs boson mass hypotheses in the range 110 to 150 GeV/c2, respectively.
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