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. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., et al. (2020). Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in events with electrons or muons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(1) [10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096].

Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in events with electrons or muons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

Benaglia, A.;Beschi, A.;Brivio, F.;Ciriolo, V.;Dinardo, M. E.;Fiorendi, S.;Ghezzi, A.;Govoni, P.;Guzzi, L.;Malberti, M.;Monti, F.;Moroni, L.;Ortona, G.;Paganoni, M.;Ragazzi, S.;Tabarelli de Fatis, T.;Zuolo, D.;Massironi, A.;Gerosa, R.;Lucchini, M. T.;De Guio, F.;
2020

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. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., et al. (2020). Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in events with electrons or muons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(1) [10.1007/JHEP01(2020)096].
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