Search for charged Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 130 to 172 GeV

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作者
Barate, R [1 ]
Buskulic, D
Decamp, D
Ghez, P
Goy, C
Lees, JP
Lucotte, A
Minard, MN
Nief, JY
Pietrzyk, B
Casado, MP
Chmeissani, M
Comas, P
Crespo, JM
Delfino, M
Fernandez, E
Fernandez-Bosman, M
Garrido, L
Juste, A
Martinez, M
Merino, G
Miquel, R
Mir, LM
Padilla, C
Park, IC
Pascual, A
Perlas, JA
Riu, I
Sanchez, F
Colaleo, A
Creanza, D
de Palma, M
Gelao, G
Iaselli, G
Maggi, G
Maggi, M
Marinelli, N
Nuzzo, S
Ranieri, A
Raso, G
Ruggieri, F
Selvaggi, G
Silvestris, L
Tempesta, P
Tricomi, A
Zito, G
Huang, X
Lin, J
Ouyang, Q
Wang, T
机构
[1] IN2P3, CNRS, Phys Particules Lab LAPP, F-74019 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Dipartimento Fis, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Acad Sinica, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[5] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[6] Univ Clermont Ferrand, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, IN2P3, CNRS, F-63177 Aubiere, France
[7] Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[8] Nucl Res Ctr Demokritos NRCD, Athens, Greece
[9] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, Lab Phys Nucl & Hautes Energies, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[10] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Fis, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[11] Florida State Univ, Supercomp Computat Res Inst, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[12] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, LNF, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[13] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[14] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Hochenergiephys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Phys, London SW7 2BZ, England
[16] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Expt Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[17] Univ Lancaster, Dept Phys, Lancaster LA1 4YB, England
[18] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[19] Fac Sci Luminy, Ctr Phys Particules, IN2P3, CNRS, F-13288 Marseille, France
[20] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Fis, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[22] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[23] Univ Paris 11, Accelerateur Lineaire Lab, IN2P3, CNRS, F-91405 Orsay, France
[24] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56010 Pisa, Italy
[25] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56010 Pisa, Italy
[26] Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Dept Phys, Surrey TW20 0EX, England
[27] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Particle Phys Dept, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[28] Univ Barcelona, E-08208 Barcelona, Spain
[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Catania, Dipartimento Fis, I-95129 Catania, Italy
[30] Univ Turin, Ist Fis Gen, Turin, Italy
[31] CNR, Ist Cosmogeofis, I-10133 Turin, Italy
[32] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[33] CENS, CEA, Serv Phys Particules, DAPNIA, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[34] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[35] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England
[36] Univ Siegen, Fachbereich Phys, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
[37] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Fis, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[38] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[39] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[40] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01490-1
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摘要
The data collected at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 130 to 172 GeV by ALEPH at LEP, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 27.5 pb(-1), are analysed In a search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons H+/-. Three analyses are employed to select the tau(+)nu(tau)tau(-)<(nu)over bar (tau)>, <C(S)over bar tau>(-)<(nu)over bar (tau)> and c (s) over bar s (c) over bar final states. No evidence for a signal is found. Mass limits are set as a function of the branching fraction B(tau nu) for H+/--->tau nu. Charged Higgs bosons with masses below 52 GeV/c(2) are excluded at 95% C.L. independently of B(tau nu) thus significantly improving on existing limits. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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