Search for the single production of doubly charged Higgs bosons and constraints on their couplings from Bhabha scattering

Collaboration
Jul, 2003
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 577 (2003) 93-108
  • Published: 2003
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2003-041
Experiments:

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Abstract:
A search for single production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons has been performed using 600.7 pb^-1 of e+e- collision data with sqrt(s)=189--209GeV collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. No evidence for the existence of H++/-- is observed. Upper limits on the Yukawa coupling of the H++/-- to like-signed electron pairs are derived. Additionally, indirect constraints on the Yukawa coupling from Bhabha scattering, where the H++/-- would contribute via t-channel exchange, are derived for M(H++/--) < 2TeV. These are the first results for both a single production search and constraints from Bhabha scattering reported from LEP.
Note:
  • 20 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Phys. Lett. B Report-no: CERN-EP/2003-041
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Higgs particle: search for
  • Higgs particle: electroproduction
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • charge: 2
  • Higgs particle: leptonic decay
  • electron positron: elastic scattering
  • Higgs particle: exchange
  • Higgs particle: mass