Limits on doubly charged Higgs bosons and lepton-flavor violation

We consider the effect of a doubly charged Higgs boson (Δ--) on several processes. We find that the effective Hamiltonian that is normally used to interpret the results of muonium-antimuonium oscillation experiments also describes the t-channel exchange of a Δ--. A limit on the existence of the Δ-- is extracted from the most recent muonium oscillation result. The effect of Δ-- exchange on high-energy Bhabha scattering is discussed, and a limit is extracted from the published cross sections of several experiments at the SLAC and DESY storage rings PEP and PETRA. The case of a nondiagonal coupling of the Δ-- to the charged leptons (nondiagonal in lepton flavor) is considered. A limit is extracted from the result of the most recent search for the rare decay μ→3e. Finally, a coupling-independent limit is extracted from a recent measurement of the process e+e-→4 leptons at PETRA