{
  "id": "hep-ex/0105057",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-05-21T10:44:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-05-21T10:44:38.000Z",
  "title": "Search for charged Higgs bosons in L3",
  "authors": [
    "Pablo Garcia-Abia"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the proceedings of LEPTRE, XIII Convegno sulla Fisica al LEP (Rome, Italy)",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "A search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons is performed with the L3 detector at LEP using data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 200 and 209 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 217.8 pb^-1. We observe an excess of events in the H+-H -> cscs and cs\\tau\\nu channels in the mass region around 68 GeV, which is most significant at low values of the H+ -> \\tau\\nu branching ratio. Including data taken at lower centre-of-mass energies, the excess is compatible with a 4.4\\sigma fluctuation in the background. Interpreting this excess as a statistical fluctuation in the background, lower limits on the charged Higgs mass are derived at the 95% confidence level. They vary from 67.1 to 84.9 GeV as a function of the H+ -> \\tau\\nu branching ratio. These results are PRELIMINARY.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-05-21T10:44:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "branching ratio",
      "lower centre-of-mass energies",
      "pair-produced charged higgs bosons",
      "l3 detector",
      "mass region"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 556930,
      "adsabs": "2001hep.ex....5057G"
    }
  }
}