Abbiendi, G. and Ainsley, C. and Akesson, P. F. and Alexander, G. and Anagnostou, G. and Anderson, K. J. and Asai, S. and Axen, D. and Bailey, I. and Barberio, E. and Barillari, T. and Barlow, R. J. and Batley, R. J. and Bechtle, P. and Behnke, T. and Bell, K. W. and Bell, P. J. and Bella, G. and Bellerive, A. and Benelli, G. and Bethke, S. and Biebel, O. and Boeriu, O. and Bock, P. and Boutemeur, M. and Braibant, S. and Brown, R. M. and Burckhart, H. J. and Campana, S. and Capiluppi, P. and Carnegie, R. K. and Carter, A. A. and Carter, J. R. and Chang, C. Y. and Charlton, D. G. and Ciocca, C. and Csilling, A. and Cuffiani, M. and Dado, S. and Dallavalle, M. and De Roeck, A. and De Wolf, E. A. and Desch, K. and Dienes, B. and Dubbert, J. and Duchovni, E. and Duckeck, G. and Duerdoth, I. P. and Etzion, E. and Fabbri, F. (2012) Search for charged Higgs bosons in e(+)e(-) collisions at root s=189-209 GeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 72 (7): 2076. -. ISSN 1434-6044
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A search is made for charged Higgs bosons predicted by Two-Higgs-Doublet extensions of the Standard Model (2HDM) using electron-positron collision data collected by the OPAL experiment at root s = 189-209 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 600 pb(-1). Charged Higgs bosons are assumed to be pair-produced and to decay into q (q) over bar, tau nu(tau) or AW(+/-)*. No signal is observed. Model-independent limits on the charged Higgs-boson production cross section are derived by combining these results with previous searches at lower energies. Under the assumption BR(H-+/- -> tau nu(tau)) + BR(H-+/- -> q (q) over bar) = 1, motivated by general 2HDM type II models, excluded areas on the [m(H +/-), BR(H-+/- -> tau nu(tau))] plane are presented and charged Higgs bosons are excluded up to a mass of 76.3 GeV at 95 % confidence level, independent of the branching ratio BR(H +/- -> tau nu(tau)). A scan of the 2HDM type I model parameter space is performed and limits on the Higgs-boson masses m(H)+/- and m(A) are presented for different choices of tan beta.