Search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of top quark pairs

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abolins, M
Abramov, V
Acharya, BS
Adam, I
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Ahn, S
Alves, GA
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Baarmand, MM
Babintsev, VV
Babukhadia, L
Baden, A
Baldin, B
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Baringer, P
Bartlett, JF
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bertram, I
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Biswas, N
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Bloom, P
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Boswell, C
Brandt, A
Breedon, R
Briskin, G
Brock, R
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Carvalho, W
Casey, D
Casilum, Z
Castilla-Valdez, H
Chakraborty, D
Chekulaev, SV
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[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[6] CEA, Serv Phys Particules, DAPNIA, Saclay, France
[7] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[8] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[9] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Mumbai, India
[10] Kyungsung Univ, Pusan, South Korea
[11] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[12] CINVESTAV, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[13] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[14] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[15] Moscow State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[16] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[17] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[18] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[19] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[20] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[21] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[22] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[23] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[24] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[25] Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[26] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[27] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[28] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[29] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[30] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[31] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[32] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[33] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[34] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[35] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[36] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[37] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[38] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[39] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[40] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[41] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[42] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[43] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[44] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[45] Langston Univ, Langston, OK 73050 USA
[46] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[47] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[48] Univ Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[49] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[50] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4975
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present a search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of pair-produced top quarks using 109.2 +/- 5.8 pb(-1) of data recorded from p (p) over bar collisions at root s 1.8 TeV by the D0 detector during 1992-1996 at the Fermilab Tevatron. No evidence is found for charged Higgs production, and most parts of the [MH+, tan beta] parameter space where the decay t --> H(+)b has a branching fraction close to or larger than that for t --> W(+)b are excluded at 95% confidence level. Assuming m(t) = 175 GeV and sigma(p (p) over bar --> t (t) over bar) = 5.5 pb, for MH+ = 60 GeV, we exclude tan beta < 0.97 and tan beta > 40.9.
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