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


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Sirunyan A., Tumasyan A., Adam W., Ambrogi F., Bergauer T., Brandstetter J., ...Daha Fazla

Journal of High Energy Physics, cilt.2020, sa.1, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2020 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/jhep01(2020)096
  • Dergi Adı: Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics, Supersymmetry, SYMMETRY-BREAKING, PAIR PRODUCTION, STANDARD MODEL, PROGRAM, SUPERSYMMETRY, MASSES, WEAK, LEP, TEV
  • Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.