Direct Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quarks

Authors

• V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
• Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• D0 Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-15-2002

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. VOLUME 88, NUMBER 15 (2002). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2002 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We present a search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of pair-produced top quarks in pp̅ collisions at√s = 1.8 TeV recorded by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. With no evidence for signal, we exclude most regions of the (M_H±, tan β) parameter space where the decay t → H⁺b has a branching fraction >0.36 and B(H^± → τν_τ is large.