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International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA)

Particles and Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics

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Volume: 2, Issue: 4 (1987) pp. 1085-1093 DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X8700048X
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Title:	Is The Left-Right Higgs Sector Observable? This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (Grant Nos. DE-FGO2– 85ER-40235 and DOE-76-ER-0191-MODA33), and the CAICYT (Spain).
Author(s):	J. GUNION Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA A. MENDEZ Dept. de Fisica Teorica, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, 08198 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain F. OLNESS Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
Abstract:	We examine the allowed mass range of the charged Higgs field H⁺ in a minimal left-right symmetric model. We find that the mass of this Higgs is nearly degenerate with the mass of the flavor-changing neutral Higgs, and this implies M_H+≳5~10 TeV. We examine a number of solutions, but fail to evade this restriction. If this constraint can not be avoided, the H⁺ (and very likely all other left-right extended Higgs particles) would be virtually undetectable at all experimental facilities, including the SSC.

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