Publication
Title
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H-+/- -> cs channel in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
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 root 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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review : D : particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology / American Physical Society. - Ridge, N.Y., 2004 - 2015
Publication
Ridge, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2020
ISSN
1550-7998 [print]
1550-2368 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVD.102.072001
Volume/pages
102 :7 (2020) , 26 p.
Article Reference
072001
ISI
000575030600001
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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