Search for doubly-charged Higgs bosons at LEP
Doubly-charged Higgs bosons are searched for in e+e− collision data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. Final states with four leptons are analysed to tag the pair-production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons. No significant excess is found and lower limits a...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2003 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Repository: | SEDICI (UNLP) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/72686 |
| Online Access: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/72686 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Ciencias Exactas Física bosón de Higgs |
| Summary: | Doubly-charged Higgs bosons are searched for in e+e− collision data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. Final states with four leptons are analysed to tag the pair-production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons. No significant excess is found and lower limits at 95% confidence level on the doubly-charged Higgs boson mass are derived. They vary from 95.5 to 100.2 GeV, depending on the decay mode. Doubly-charged Higgs bosons which couple to electrons would modify the cross section and forward–backward asymmetry of the e+e− →e+e− process. The measurements of these quantities do not deviate from the Standard Model expectations and doubly-charged Higgs bosons with masses up to the order of a TeV are excluded. |
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