Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H±^\pm \to cs channel in proton-proton collisions at s=\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

Collaboration
May 18, 2020
26 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 7, 072001
  • Published: Oct 6, 2020
e-Print:
DOI:
Report number:
  • CMS-HIG-18-021,
  • CERN-EP-2020-057
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Abstract: (APS)
A search is conducted for a low-mass charged Higgs boson produced in a top quark decay and subsequently decaying into a charm and a strange quark. The data sample was recorded in proton-proton collisions at s=13  TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9  fb-1. The search is performed in the process of top quark pair production, where one top quark decays to a bottom quark and a charged Higgs boson and the other to a bottom quark and a W boson. With the W boson decaying to a charged lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino, the final state comprises an isolated lepton, missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets, of which two are tagged as b jets. To enhance the search sensitivity, one of the jets originating from the charged Higgs boson is required to satisfy a charm tagging selection. No significant excess beyond standard model predictions is found in the dijet invariant mass distribution. An upper limit in the range 1.68%–0.25% is set on the branching fraction of the top quark decay to the charged Higgs boson and bottom quark for a charged Higgs boson mass between 80 and 160 GeV.
Note:
  • Particle Physics Experiments
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • p p: scattering
  • top: decay modes
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • jet: bottom
  • top: pair production
  • top: branching ratio: upper limit