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T1 - Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons in like-sign dilepton final states at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Davidson, Ruth
AU - de Mora, Lee
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Maddocks, Harvey
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
N1 - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - A search for doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to pairs of electrons and/or muons is presented. The search is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Pairs of prompt, isolated, high-p T leptons with the same electric charge (e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, μ ± μ ±) are selected, and their invariant mass distribution is searched for a narrow resonance. No significant excess over Standard Model background expectations is observed, and limits are placed on the cross section times branching ratio for pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons. The masses of doubly charged Higgs bosons are constrained depending on the branching ratio into these leptonic final states. Assuming pair production, coupling to left-handed fermions, and a branching ratio of 100 % for each final state, masses below 409 GeV, 375 GeV, and 398 GeV are excluded for e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, and μ ± μ ±, respectively.
AB - A search for doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to pairs of electrons and/or muons is presented. The search is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Pairs of prompt, isolated, high-p T leptons with the same electric charge (e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, μ ± μ ±) are selected, and their invariant mass distribution is searched for a narrow resonance. No significant excess over Standard Model background expectations is observed, and limits are placed on the cross section times branching ratio for pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons. The masses of doubly charged Higgs bosons are constrained depending on the branching ratio into these leptonic final states. Assuming pair production, coupling to left-handed fermions, and a branching ratio of 100 % for each final state, masses below 409 GeV, 375 GeV, and 398 GeV are excluded for e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, and μ ± μ ±, respectively.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2244-2
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2244-2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2012
JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 12
M1 - 2244
ER -