Associated central exclusive production of charged Higgs bosons

2011/04/30 by Rikard Enberg, Roman Pasechnik · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Geometry #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #Higgs sector #Large Hadron Collider #Mathematics #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Parameter space #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Production (economics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.83.095020

published as Phys.Rev.D83:095020,2011 · 9 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes, references added. Version to appear in PRD

arxiv created 2011/05/20 · openalex publication_date 2011/05/25 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We propose central exclusive production of a charged Higgs boson in association with a W boson as a possible signature of certain types of extended Higgs sectors. We calculate the cross section and find that the rate at the LHC could be large enough to allow observation in some models with two-Higgs doublets, where the charged Higgs and at least one of the neutral scalars can be light enough. We use the two-Higgs doublet model as a prototype and consider two distinct regions of parameter space, but we also briefly discuss the prospects for the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, where the charged Higgs may very well be quite light.

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