Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector using proton–proton collisions at √s=13TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

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Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector using proton–proton collisions at √s=13TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Istanbul Bilgi University
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
National Center for Energy, Nuclear Science and Technology
CERN
Mohamed I University
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Toronto
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
The University of Tokyo
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Belgrade
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
University of Geneva
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Instituto de Física La Plata
Radboud University Nijmegen
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Czech Technical University in Prague

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	199
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	78
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5661-z
State	Published - Mar 1 2018

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Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector using proton–proton collisions at √s=13TeV

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