Publication
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=13TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collabration
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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of high energy physics. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2020
ISSN
1126-6708
1029-8479 [online]
DOI
10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096
Volume/pages
1 (2020) , 48 p.
Article Reference
096
ISI
000512006100001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Beyond Collinear Factorization: Precision Measurement Era with Predictions from the Parton Branching TMDs.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 12.12.2024
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