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Title: A search for double-charged Higgs bosons at the Tevatron

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/917103· OSTI ID:917103
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  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

We search for the pair production of doubly charged Higgs particles followed by the lepton-flavor violating decay of each Higgs into electron-and-tau and muon-and-tau pairs using 350 pb-1 of data collected by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. Separate searches investigate cases where three or four final state leptons are detected, and the limits for each exclusive decay mode reflect the combined results of both searches. Assuming the H$$±±\atop{L}$$ decays exclusively into like sign electron-and-tau pairs, we set a lower limit on its mass of 114 GeV/c2 at the 95 % confidence level. In the case of exclusive muon-and-tau decays, we set a lower mass limit of 112 GeV/c2 also at the 95% confidence level.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
917103
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-2006-56; TRN: US0804452
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English