Sirunyan, AM;
Tumasyan, A;
Adam, W;
Ambrogi, F;
Bergauer, T;
Brandstetter, J;
Dragicevic, M;
... Alves, FL; + view all
(2020)
Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in events with electrons or muons in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2020
(1)
, Article 96. 10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096.
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Abstract
A search is presented for a charged Higgs boson heavier than the top quark, produced in association with a top quark, or with a top and a bottom quark, and decaying into a top-bottom quark-antiquark pair. The search is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 . Events are selected by the presence of a single isolated charged lepton (electron or muon) or an opposite-sign dilepton (electron or muon) pair, categorized according to the jet multiplicity and the number of jets identified as originating from b quarks. Multivariate analysis techniques are used to enhance the discrimination between signal and background in each category. The data are compatible with the standard model, and 95% confidence level upper limits of 9.6–0.01 pb are set on the charged Higgs boson production cross section times branching fraction to a top-bottom quark-antiquark pair, for charged Higgs boson mass hypotheses ranging from 200 GeV to 3 TeV. The upper limits are interpreted in different minimal supersymmetric extensions of the standard model.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in events with electrons or muons in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics, Supersymmetry |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097455 |
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