Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H-+/- -> cs channel in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

(CMS Collaboration) Sirunyan, Albert M; Antunović, Željko; Brigljević, Vuko; Ferenček, Dinko; Giljanović, Duje; Godinović, Nikola; Kovač, Marko; Lelas, Damir; Majumder, Devdatta; Puljak, Ivica; Roguljić, Matej; Starodumov, Andrey; Đurić, Senka; Šuša, Tatjana; Šćulac, Toni; Vetens, Wren (2020) Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H-+/- -> cs channel in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV. Physical review. D, 102 (7). ISSN 2470-0010

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Particle Physics Experiments ; Physics ; Vector boson scattering ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Supersymmetry ; Higgs physics ; Particle and resonance production ; B physics ; Particle correlations and fluctuations ; Quarkonium ; Elementary Particles and Fields ; Beyond Standard Model
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Dinko Ferenček
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2021 07:39
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/6334
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.102.072001

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