TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collisions at root s=13TeV
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Abidi, S.H.
AU - Abouzeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander
AU - Abraham, NL
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adachi, Sosuke
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Stark, Simon Holm
AU - Bajic, Milena
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Thiele, Fabian Alexander Jürgen
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - A search for doubly charged Higgs bosons with pairs of prompt, isolated, highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge is presented. The search uses a proton–proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to 36.1 fb - 1 of integrated luminosity recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This analysis focuses on the decays H± ±→ e±e±, H± ±→ e±μ± and H± ±→ μ±μ±, fitting the dilepton mass spectra in several exclusive signal regions. No significant evidence of a signal is observed and corresponding limits on the production cross-section and consequently a lower limit on m(H± ±) are derived at 95% confidence level. With ℓ±ℓ±= e±e±/ μ±μ±/ e±μ±, the observed lower limit on the mass of a doubly charged Higgs boson only coupling to left-handed leptons varies from 770 to 870 GeV (850 GeV expected) for B(H± ±→ ℓ±ℓ±) = 100 % and both the expected and observed mass limits are above 450 GeV for B(H± ±→ ℓ±ℓ±) = 10 % and any combination of partial branching ratios.
AB - A search for doubly charged Higgs bosons with pairs of prompt, isolated, highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge is presented. The search uses a proton–proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to 36.1 fb - 1 of integrated luminosity recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This analysis focuses on the decays H± ±→ e±e±, H± ±→ e±μ± and H± ±→ μ±μ±, fitting the dilepton mass spectra in several exclusive signal regions. No significant evidence of a signal is observed and corresponding limits on the production cross-section and consequently a lower limit on m(H± ±) are derived at 95% confidence level. With ℓ±ℓ±= e±e±/ μ±μ±/ e±μ±, the observed lower limit on the mass of a doubly charged Higgs boson only coupling to left-handed leptons varies from 770 to 870 GeV (850 GeV expected) for B(H± ±→ ℓ±ℓ±) = 100 % and both the expected and observed mass limits are above 450 GeV for B(H± ±→ ℓ±ℓ±) = 10 % and any combination of partial branching ratios.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5661-z
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5661-z
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31265007
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 78
JO - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
IS - 3
M1 - 199
ER -