Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and a bottom quark in the fully hadronic final state at 13 TeV

Collaboration
2019
25 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIG-18-015
Experiments:

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Abstract:
A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a top and a bottom quark-antiquark pair in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The analysis uses LHC proton-proton collision data recorded with the CMS detector in 2016 at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV}, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. No significant deviation above the expected background is observed. Model-independent upper limits at 95%95\% confidence level are set on the charged Higgs boson production cross section times branching fraction in two scenarios. For production in association with a top quark, limits of 21.3 to 0.007 pb0.007~\mathrm{pb} are calculated for charged boson masses in the range 200 GeV200~\mathrm{GeV} to 3 TeV3~\mathrm{TeV}. Combination with data from a search in the leptonic final states results in improved limits of 9.25 to 0.005 pb0.005~\mathrm{pb}. The complementary s-channel production of a charged Higgs boson is investigated in the mass range 800 GeV800~\mathrm{GeV} to 3 TeV3~\mathrm{TeV} and the corresponding upper limits are 4.5 to 0.023 pb0.023~\mathrm{pb}. These results are interpreted in different minimal supersymmetric extensions of the standard model.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Monte-Carlo
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • final state: hadronic
  • Higgs particle: hadroproduction
  • top: associated production
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • supersymmetry: minimal
  • final state: ((n)jet)
  • Higgs particle: mass: lower limit