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Study of Pair-Produced Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with a Four Muon Final State at the CMS Detector

Abstract

An analysis of the discovery potential of pairproduced doubly charged Higgs bosons at the CMS detector is presented in this note. Investigated are doubly charged Higgs bosons pairproduced by the Drell-Yan process. A branching ratio of 100% into muon pairs is assumed. The pure muonic decay channel yields a clear signal which is almost free of background. Doubly charged Higgs bosons with masses in the range 100 to 800 GeV are studied, for a low luminosity scenario of L = 2x10^33cm^-2s^-1. The full detector simulation is used. Doubly charged Higgs bosons in this production and decay channel with mass m(H^pm pm) le 650~GeV are expected to be observable at CMS with a significance exceeding 5 sigma at 1 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity. If no signal will be detected for this integrated luminosity, the existence of a doubly charged Higgs Boson with m((H^pm pm) le 760~GeV can be excluded with 95% Confidence level. This exceeds the current exclusion limit for this channel mH^pm pm) le 136~GeV, set by CDF at Tevatron Run II, by 624~GeV

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