Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H cs channel in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Collaboration
26 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 7, 072001
- Published: Oct 6, 2020
e-Print:
- 2005.08900 [hep-ex]
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.072001 (publication)
Report number:
- CMS-HIG-18-021,
- CERN-EP-2020-057
Experiments:
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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:
- Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIG-18-021 (CMS Public Pages)
- 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
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