Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Rimoldi, Marco; Mullier, Geoffrey; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Meloni, Federico; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio (2018). Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(11) Springer 10.1007/JHEP11(2018)085

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A search for charged Higgs bosons heavier than the top quark and decaying
via H± → tb is presented. The data analysed corresponds to 36.1 fb⁻¹ of pp collisions at
√s = 13 TeV and was recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016.
The production of a charged Higgs boson in association with a top quark and a bottom
quark, pp → tbH±, is explored in the mass range from mH± = 200 to 2000 GeV using
multi-jet final states with one or two electrons or muons. Events are categorised according
to the multiplicity of jets and how likely these are to have originated from hadronisation
of a bottom quark. Multivariate techniques are used to discriminate between signal and
background events. No significant excess above the background-only hypothesis is observed and exclusion limits are derived for the production cross-section times branching ratio of a charged Higgs boson as a function of its mass, which range from 2.9 pb at mH± = 200 GeV to 0.070 pb at mH± = 2000 GeV. The results are interpreted in two benchmark scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Beck, Hans Peter

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1029-8479

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import LHEP

Date Deposited:

14 May 2019 15:34

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/JHEP11(2018)085

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwaehnt

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.129017

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/129017

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