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Search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of top quarks in collisions at =1.96 TeV
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Author
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Institution/Organisation
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CDF Collaboration
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Abstract
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We report on the first direct search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into cs̅ in tt̅ events produced by pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. The search uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb-1 collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab and looks for a resonance in the invariant mass distribution of two jets in the lepton+jets sample of tt̅ candidates. We observe no evidence of charged Higgs bosons in top quark decays. Hence, 95% upper limits on the top quark decay branching ratio are placed at B(t→H+b)< 0.1 to 0.3 for charged Higgs boson masses of 60 to 150 GeV/c2 assuming B(H+→cs̅ )=1.0. The upper limits on B(t→H+b) are also used as model-independent limits on the decay branching ratio of top quarks to generic scalar charged bosons beyond the standard model. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y., 1958, currens
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Publication
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New York, N.Y.
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American Physical Society
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2009
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ISSN
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0031-9007
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1079-7114
[online]
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Volume/pages
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103
:10
(2009)
, p. 101803,1-101803,7
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ISI
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000269639800012
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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