Search for a doubly charged Higgs decaying to muons or electrons at CMS

A variety of exotic models predict a doubly charged Higgs-like particle that can be pair-produced in hadronic interactions via a Drell-Yan-like mechanism. The H++ and H-- can each decay to a pair of like-sign leptons (muons or electrons in this study), not necessarily of the same flavor, with TeV-scale mass, providing a distinctive event signature. We present an update of a search for these bosons at Run 2 of the CMS experiment, including improved event selection and projected sensitivity.