Search for the charged Higgs boson in the decays of top quark pairs in the \u3ci\u3ee\u3c/i\u3eτ and μτ channels at √s =1.8 TeV

  • Affolder, T.
  • Bloom, Kenneth A.
  • Fermilab Collaboration, Collider Detector at
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Publication date
July 2000
Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Language
English

Abstract

Top quark production offers the unique opportunity to search for a charged Higgs boson (H±), as the contribution from t→H+b→ τ + νb can be large in extensions of the standard model. We use results from a search for top quark pair production by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in the e τ +ET+jets and μ τ+ET+jets signatures to set an upper limit on the branching ratio of Ɓ (t→H+b) in 106 pb-1 of data. The upper limit is in the range 0.5 to 0.6 at 95% C.L. for H+ masses in the range 60 to 160 GeV, assuming the branching ratio for H+→ τ ν is 100%. The τ lepton is detected through its 1-prong and 3-prong hadronic decays

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