A Search for Long-Lived Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson Production in anti-p p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using RunII CDF
We present a search for a quasi-stable doubly-charged Higgs particle at CDF using the Fermilab Tevatron for {radical}s = 1.96 TeV. The data presented are from approximately 290 pb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity collected using the upgraded Run 2 Collider Detector at Fermilab. These data were taken between February, 2002 and February, 2004. The long-lived decay products of Z's are selected in the central detector region (|{eta}| < 1.0). They select events triggered on a muon candidate having p{sub T} > 18 GeV in the event. After offline reconstruction, they require two isolated tracks (p{sub T} > 20 GeV) in the event, one of which points to a stub in a muon detector. Since the search is based on the increased ionization a doubly-charged particle would produce as it passes through the detector, they require that both tracks be highly ionizing for an event to be selected as a H{sup {+-}{+-}} candidate. No such candidates are observed in the data. They set a lower mass limit of 146 GeV on a quasi-stable H{sup {+-}{+-}} boson.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 948160
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-MASTERS-2005-03; TRN: US0901668
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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