Search for charged Higgs boson decays of the top quark using hadronic decays of the tau lepton Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This Letter describes a direct search for charged Higgs boson production in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Two-Higgs-doublet extensions to the standard model predict the existence of charged Higgs bosons. In such models, the branching fraction for top quarks B(t H b tau nu b) can be large. This search uses the hadronic decays of the tau lepton in this channel to significantly extend previous limits on charged Higgs production. 1997 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M. G., Amendolia, S. R., Amidei, D., ... Zucchelli, S.

citation count

  • 90

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Akimoto, H||Akopian, A||Albrow, MG||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Aota, S||Apollinari, G||Asakawa, T||Ashmanskas, W||Atac, M||Azfar, F||AzziBacchetta, P||Bacchetta, N||Badgett, W||Bagdasarov, S||Bailey, MW||Bao, J||deBarbaro, P||BarbaroGaltieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Barone, M||Barzi, E||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Benlloch, J||Bensinger, J||Benton, D||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Berryhill, J||Bertolucci, S||Bevensee, B||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bodek, A||Bokhari, W||Bolognesi, V||Bolla, G||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Breccia, L||Bromberg, C||Bruner, N||BuckleyGeer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||ByonWagner, A||Byrum, KL||Cammerata, J||Campagnari, C||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W||Carlsmith, D||Castro, A||Cauz, D||Cen, Y||Cervelli, F||Chang, PS||Chang, PT||Chao, HY||Chapman, J||Cheng, MT||Chiarelli, G||Chikamatsu, T||Chiou, CN||Christofek, L||Cihangir, S||Clark, AG||Cobal, M||Cocca, E||Contreras, M||Conway, J||Cooper, J||Cordelli, M||Couyoumtzelis, C||Crane, D||CroninHennessy, D||Culbertson, R||Daniels, T||DeJongh, F||Delchamps, S||DellAgnello, S||DellOrso, M||Demina, R||Demortier, L||Deninno, M||Derwent, PF||Devlin, T||Dittmann, JR||Donati, S||Done, J||Dorigo, T||Dunn, A||Eddy, N||Einsweiler, K||Elias, JE||Ely, R||Engels, E||Errede, D||Errede, S||Fan, Q||Feild, G||Ferretti, C||Fiori, I||Flauher, B||Foster, GW||Franklin, M||Frautschi, M||Freeman, J||Friedman, J||Frisch, H||Fukui, Y||Funaki, S||Galeotti, S||Gallinaro, M||Ganel, O||GarciaSciveres, M||Garfinkel, AF||Gay, C||Geer, S||Gerdes, DW||Giannetti, P||Giokaris, N||Giromini, P||Giusti, G||Gladney, L||Glenzinski, D||Gold, M||Gonzalez, J||Gordon, A||Goshaw, AT||Gotra, Y||Goulianos, K||Grassmann, H||Groer, L||GrossoPilcher, C||Guillian, G||Guo, RS||Haber, C||Hafen, E||Hahn, SR||Hamilton, R||Handler, R||Hans, RM||Happacher, F||Hara, K||Hardman, AD||Harral, B||Harris, RM||Hauger, SA||Hauser, J||Hawk, C||Hayashi, E||Heinrich, J||Hinrichsen, B||Hoffman, KD||Hohlmann, M||Holck, C||Hollebeek, R||Holloway, L||Hong, S||Houk, G||Hu, P||Huffman, BT||Hughes, R||Huston, J||Huth, J||Hylen, J||Ikeda, H||Incagli, M||Incandela, J||Introzzi, G||Iwai, J||Iwata, Y||Jensen, H||Joshi, U||Kadel, RW||Kajfasz, E||Kambara, H||Kamon, T||Kaneko, T||Karr, K||Kasha, H||Kato, Y||Keaffaber, TA||Kelley, K||Kennedy, RD||Kephart, R||Kesten, P||Kestenbaum, D||Keutelian, H||Keyvan, F||Kharadia, B||Kim, BJ||Kim, DH||Kim, HS||Kim, SB||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kirsch, L||Koehn, P||Kondo, K||Konigsberg, J||Kopp, S||Kordas, K||Korytov, A||Koska, W||Kovacs, E||Kowald, W||Krasberg, M||Kroll, J||Kruse, M||Kuwabara, T||Kuhlmann, SE||Kuns, E||Laasanen, AT||Lami, S||Lammel, S||Lamoureux, JI||Lancaster, M||LeCompte, T||Leone, S||Lewis, JD||Limon, P||Lindgren, M||Liss, TM||Liu, JB||Liu, YC||Lockyer, N||Long, O||Loomis, C||Loreti, M||Lu, J||Lucchesi, D||Lukens, P||Lusin, S||Lys, J||Maeshima, K||Maghakian, A||Maksimovic, P||Mangano, M||Mansour, J||Mariotti, M||Marriner, JP||Martin, A||Matthews, JAJ||Mattingly, R||McIntyre, P||Melese, P||Menzione, A||Meschi, E||Metzler, S||Miao, C||Miao, T||Michail, G||Miller, R||Minato, H||Miscetti, S||Mishina, M||Mitsushio, H||Miyamoto, T||Miyashita, S||Moggi, N||Morita, Y||Mukherjee, A||Muller, T||Murat, P||Nakada, H||Nakano, I||Nelson, C||Neuberger, D||NewmanHolmes, C||Ngan, CYP||Ninomiya, M||Nodulman, L||Oh, SH||Ohl, KE||Ohmoto, T||Ohsugi, T||Oishi, R||Okabe, M||Okusawa, T||Oliveira, R||Olsen, J||Pagliarone, C||Paoletti, R||Papadimitriou, V||Pappas, SP||Parashar, N||Park, S||Parri, A||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Perazzo, A||Pescara, L||Peters, MD||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Pillai, M||Pitts, KT||Plunkett, R||Pondrom, L||Proudfoot, J||Ptohos, F||Punzi, G||Ragan, K||Reher, D||Ribon, A||Rimondi, F||Ristori, L||Robertson, WJ||Rodrigo, T||Rolli, S||Romano, J||Rosenson, L||Roser, R||Saab, T||Sakumoto, WK||Saltzberg, D||Sansoni, A||Santi, L||Sato, H||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, EE||Schmidt, MP||Scribano, A||Segler, S||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Sganos, G||Shapiro, MD||Shaw, NM||Shen, Q||Shepard, PF||Shimojima, M||Shochet, M||Siegrist, J||Sill, A||Sinervo, P||Singh, P||Skarha, J||Sliwa, K||Snider, FD||Song, T||Spalding, J||Speer, T||Sphicas, P||Spinella, F||Spiropulu, M||Spiegel, L||Stanco, L||Steele, J||Stefanini, A||Strahl, K||Strait, J||Strohmer, R||Stuart, D||Sullivan, G||Sumorok, K||Suzuki, J||Takada, T||Takahashi, T||Takano, T||Takikawa, K||Tamura, N||Tannenbaum, B||Tartarelli, F||Taylor, W||Teng, PK||Teramoto, Y||Tether, S||Theriot, D||Thomas, TL||Thun, R||ThurmanKeup, R||Timko, M||Tipton, P||Titov, A||Tkaczyk, S||Toback, D||Tollefson, K||Tollestrup, A||Toyoda, H||Trischuk, W||deTroconiz, JF||Truitt, S||Tseng, J||Turini, N||Uchida, T||Uemura, N||Ukegawa, F||Unal, G||Valls, J||vandenBrink, SC||Vejcik, S||Velev, G||Vidal, R||Vilar, R||Vondracek, M||Vucinic, D||Wagner, RG||Wagner, RL||Wahl, J||Wallace, NB||Walsh, AM||Wang, C||Wang, CH||Wang, J||Wang, MJ||Wang, QF||Warburton, A||Watts, T||Webb, R||Wei, C||Wenzel, H||Wester, WC||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Wilkinson, R||Williams, HH||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Winn, D||Wolinski, D||Wolinski, J||Worm, S||Wu, X||Wyss, J||Yagil, A||Yao, W||Yasuoka, K||Ye, Y||Yeh, GP||Yeh, P||Yin, M||Yoh, J||Yosef, C||Yoshida, T||Yovanovitch, D||Yu, I||Yu, L||Yun, JC||Zanetti, A||Zetti, F||Zhang, L||Zhang, W||Zucchelli, S

publication date

  • July 1997