2018/06/21 by Siba Prasad Das, Das, S. P., J. Hernández-Sánchez +5
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.08361
openalex publication_date 2018/06/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We analyze the prospects of observing relatively light charged Higgs bosons (h±) in their decays via h- → s c + s u at the upcoming Future Circular Collider in hadron-electron mode (FCC-eh) with √ s ≈ 3.5 TeV. Assuming that the intermediate Higgs boson (h2) is Standard Model (SM)-like, we study the production of e- b → νe h- b (also b could be b in both initial and final states) in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). We consider constraints from Dark Matter (DM), super-particle and the Higgs boson data. The charged Higgs boson decays into light flavors leads to a three-jets with missing transverse energy signal with one b-tagged jet. Our results show that light charged Higgs bosons with mass close to, e.g., 114(121) GeV have the maximal significance of 3.2(1.8)σ, upon using normal cut based selections and after 1 ab-1 of luminosity. However, we further adopt an optimization technique to enhance the latter to 4.4 (2.2)σ, respectively.