Search for charged Higgs bosons in e+ e- collisions at center-of-mass energies between 130-GeV and 183-GeV

Collaboration
Sep, 1998
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 446 (1999) 368-377
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-98-149
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons is performed with the L3 detector at LEP using data collected at centre-of-mass energies from 130 to 183 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 88.3 pb −1 . The Higgs decays into a charm and a strange quark or into a tau lepton and its associated neutrino are considered. The observed candidates are consistent with the expectations from Standard Model background processes. A lower limit of 57.5 GeV on the charged Higgs mass is derived at 95% CL, independent of the decay branching ratio Br(H ± →τν).
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Higgs particle: search for
  • Higgs particle: pair production
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • Higgs particle: leptonic decay
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • lower limit
  • L3
  • experimental results