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Search for non-minimal Higgs bosons inZ 0 decays

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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We report on a search for the neutral and charged Higgs bosons predicted by models of spontaneous symmetry breaking with more than one Higgs doublet field. No signals are observed. We set model-independent limits on masses or branching ratios of singly and pair-produced neutral and charged Higgs bosons. In addition, we interpret our results in the framework of a general two-doublet Higgs model and the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model.

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L3 Collaboration., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M. et al. Search for non-minimal Higgs bosons inZ 0 decays. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 57, 355–381 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01474331

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