Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP

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作者
Abbiendi, G [1 ]
Ainsley, C
Åkesson, PF
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Anagnostou, G
Anderson, KJ
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Bailey, I
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Batley, RJ
Bechtle, P
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bell, PJ
Bella, G
Bellerive, A
Benelli, G
Bethke, S
Biebel, O
Bloodworth, IJ
Boeriu, O
Bock, P
Böhme, J
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Cammin, J
Campana, S
Carnegie, RK
Caron, B
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Clarke, PEL
Clay, E
Cohen, I
Couchmann, J
Csilling, A
Cuffiani, M
Dado, S
Dallavalle, GM
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] CERN, European Org Nucl Res, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[9] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[10] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[12] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[14] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[15] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[16] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[17] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[18] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[19] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[20] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CLRC, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[21] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[22] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[23] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[24] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[25] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[26] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[27] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[28] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[29] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[30] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[31] Nucl Res Inst, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[32] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[33] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[34] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[35] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[36] Univ Debrecen, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
[37] MPI Extraterr Phys, Munich, Germany
[38] Univ Calif Riverside, High Energy Phys Grp, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[39] CERN, Div EP, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[40] Univ Instelling Antwerp, Dept Phys, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 以色列科学基金会; 日本学术振兴会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01474-5
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
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摘要
A search for pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons has been performed using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 614 pb(-1) collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 209 GeV. No evidence for a signal has been observed. A mass limit of 98.5 GeV/c(2) at the 95% confidence level has been set for the doubly charged Higgs particle in left-right symmetric models. This is the first search for doubly charged Higgs bosons at centre-of-mass energies larger than 91 GeV. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:12
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