Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H± → τ±ντ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at √{s }=13 TeV
Abstract
A search is presented for charged Higgs bosons in the H± → τ±ντ decay mode in the hadronic final state and in final states with an electron or a muon. The search is based on proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The results agree with the background expectation from the standard model. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section times branching fraction to τ±ντ for an H± in the mass range of 80GeV to 3TeV, including the region near the top quark mass. The observed limit ranges from 6 pb at 80 GeV to 5 fb at 3 TeV. The limits are interpreted in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model mhhod - scenario.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP07(2019)142
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.04560
- Bibcode:
- 2019JHEP...07..142C
- Keywords:
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- Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments);
- Higgs physics;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIG-18-014 (CMS Public Pages)