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.
Titolo: | Search for Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons at LEP. | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2003 | |
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Abstract: | 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. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11386/1002974 | |
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