Search for charged Higgs bosons in e+ e- collisions at s**(1/2) = 189-GeV - 202-GeV

Collaboration
Aug, 2001
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 525 (2002) 17-28
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2001-062
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons was performed in the high energy data collected by the DELPHI detector at LEP II at centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV. The three different final states, τντν , c s ̄ c ̄ s and c s ̄ τν were considered. New methods were applied to reject wrong hadronic jet pairings and for the tau identification, where a discriminator based on tau polarisation and polar angles was used. No excess of data compared to the expected Standard Model processes was observed and the existence of a charged Higgs boson with mass lower than 71.5 GeV/ c 2 is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
Note:
  • 19 pages, 6 figures Report-no: CERN-EP/2001-062 Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 525 (2002) 17-28
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Higgs particle: search for
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • Higgs particle: pair production
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • Higgs particle: leptonic decay
  • quark: charm
  • quark: strangeness
  • tau: polarization