2015/06/14 by Rikard Enberg, Enberg, Rikard, William Klemm +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1506.04409
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We analyse the discovery prospects of the charged Higgs boson, H^±, via its decay in the W^± h channel in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as several 2-Higgs Doublet Models (2HDMs). h, the lightest scalar Higgs boson in these models, is identified with the recently discovered ∼ 125 GeV state, Hobs, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We find that, while it provides an important input in the kinematic selection of signal events, the measured Hobs mass renders this channel inaccessible in the MSSM. In the 2HDMs though, through a dedicated signal-to-background analysis for the pp→ t(b)H-→ ℓ^±ν_ℓ jj bbb(b)+h.c process, we establish that some parameter space regions will be testable at the LHC with √(s)=14 TeV.