Search for charged Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions at √s = 130-172 GeV

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Ackerstaff, K [1 ]
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Altekamp, N
Anderson, KJ
Anderson, S
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Ashby, SF
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Ball, AH
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Bartoldus, R
Batley, JR
Baumann, S
Bechtluft, J
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bella, G
Bentvelsen, S
Bethke, S
Betts, S
Biebel, O
Biguzzi, A
Bird, SD
Blobel, V
Bloodworth, IJ
Bobinski, M
Pock, P
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Burgard, C
Burgin, R
Capiluppi, P
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Chrisman, D
Clarke, PEL
Cohen, I
Conboy, JE
Cooke, OC
机构
[1] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[2] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[3] Lajos Kossuth Univ, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
[4] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[5] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY USA
[6] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[7] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[8] INFN, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[9] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[10] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[11] Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 OHE, England
[12] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[13] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[14] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[15] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[16] Albert Ludwigs Univ, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[17] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[18] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[19] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, London E1 4NS, England
[20] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[21] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[22] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[23] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[24] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[25] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[26] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[27] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[28] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[29] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[30] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[31] Kobe Univ, Kobe 657, Hyogo, Japan
[32] Brunel Univ, Inst Phys & Environm Sci, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[33] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[34] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[35] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[36] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[37] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[38] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[39] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[40] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[41] Ludwigs Maximillian Univ, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00360-8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A search is described to detect charged Higgs bosons via the process e(+)e --> H(+)H, using data collected by the OPAL detector at center-of-mass energies of 130-172 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 25 pb(-1) The decay channels are assumed to be H(+)--> qq and H(+) tau(+)nu(tau). No evidence for charged Higgs boson production is observed. The lower limit for its mass is determined to be 52 GeV at 95% confidence level, independent of the H(+)-->tau(+) nu tau branching ratio. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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