@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
and Amos, K. R.
and Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
and Bailey, A. J.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Cantero, J.
and Cardillo, F.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Costa, M. J.
and Didenko
and Escobar, C.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gomez Delegido, A. J.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
and Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Martinez Agullo, P.
and Miralles Lopez, M.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Monsonis Romero, L.
and Moreno Llacer, M.
and Munoz Perez, D.
and Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
and Poveda, J.
and Prades Iba{\~{n}}ez, A.
and Rubio Jimenez, A.
and Ruiz-Martinez, A.
and Sabatini, P.
and Salt, J.
and Sanchez Sebastian, V.
and Sayago Galvan, I.
and Senthilkumar, V.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Torro Pastor, E.
and Valero, A.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Varriale, L.
and Villaplana Perez, M.
and Vos, M.",
title="Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states using 139 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at {\textsurd}s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
journal="European Physical Journal C",
year="2023",
publisher="Springer",
volume="83",
number="7",
pages="605 - 32pp",
abstract="A search for pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons (H-+/-+/-), each decaying into a pair of prompt, isolated, and highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge, is presented. The search uses a proton-proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This analysis focuses on same-charge leptonic decays, H-+/-+/- -> l(+/-)l{\textquoteright}(+/-) where l, l{\textquoteright} = e, mu, tau, in two-, three-, and four-lepton channels, but only considers final states which include electrons or muons. No evidence of a signal is observed. Corresponding upper limits on the production cross-section of a doubly charged Higgs boson are derived, as a function of its mass m(H-+/-+/-), at 95{\%} confidence level. Assuming that the branching ratios to each of the possible leptonic final states are equal, B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)e(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)mu(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> mu(+/-)mu(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)tau(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> mu(+/-)tau(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> tau(+/-)tau(+/-)) = 1/6, the observed (expected) lower limit on the mass of a doubly charged Higgs boson is 1080GeV(1065 GeV) within the left-right symmetric type-II seesaw model, which is the strongest limit to date produced by the ATLAS Collaboration. Additionally, this paper provides the first direct test of the Zee-Babu neutrino mass model at the LHC, yielding an observed (expected) lower limit of m(H-+/-+/-) = 900 GeV (880 GeV).",
optnote="WOS:001062376700002",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5742), last updated on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:57:05 +0000",
issn="1434-6044",
doi="10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11578-9",
opturl="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07505",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11578-9",
language="English"
}