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Phys. Rev. D 62, 012004 (2000) [7 pages]

Search for the charged Higgs boson in the decays of top quark pairs in the eτ and μτ channels at s=1.8 TeV

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T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 7 December 1999; published 9 June 2000

Top quark production offers the unique opportunity to search for a charged Higgs boson (H±), as the contribution from tH+bτ+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 eτ+ET+jets and μτ+ET+jets signatures to set an upper limit on the branching ratio of B(tH+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+τν is 100%. The τ lepton is detected through its 1-prong and 3-prong hadronic decays.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.012004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.012004
PACS:
12.60.Fr, 14.80.Cp