Search for doubly-charged Higgs boson production at HERA

Collaboration
Apr, 2006
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 638 (2006) 432-440
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-06-038
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for the single production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons H±± in ep collisions is presented. The signal is searched for via the Higgs decays into a high mass pair of same charge leptons, one of them being an electron. The analysis uses up to 118 pb −1 of ep data collected by the H1 experiment at HERA. No evidence for doubly-charged Higgs production is observed and mass dependent upper limits are derived on the Yukawa couplings hel of the Higgs boson to an electron–lepton pair. Assuming that the doubly-charged Higgs only decays into an electron and a muon via a coupling of electromagnetic strength heμ=4παem≃0.3 , a lower limit of 141 GeV on the H±± mass is obtained at the 95% confidence level. For a doubly-charged Higgs decaying only into an electron and a tau and a coupling heτ≃0.3 , masses below 112 GeV are ruled out.
Note:
  • 15 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
  • electron p: colliding beams
  • new particle: search for
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • charge: 2
  • Higgs particle: leptonic decay
  • charge: dilepton
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • lower limit
  • coupling: Yukawa
  • channel cross section: branching ratio