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Type: Journal article
Title: Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H±< → tb decay channel in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Other Titles: Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H+/- -> tb decay channel in pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Author: The, A.
Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Abdinov, O.
Aben, R.
Abolins, M.
AbouZeid, O.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abreu, R.
Abulaiti, Y.
Acharya, B.
Adamczyk, L.
Adams, D.
Adelman, J.
Adomeit, S.
Adye, T.
Affolder, A.
Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
et al.
Citation: The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016; 2016(3):127-1-127-48
Publisher: Springer
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1126-6708
1029-8479
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G. Aad, , B. Abbott, J. Abdallah … Paul D. Jackson … Andreas Petridis … Martin White … et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Abstract: Charged Higgs bosons heavier than the top quark and decaying via H ± → tb are searched for in proton-proton collisions measured with the ATLAS experiment at s√=8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3fb−1. The production of a charged Higgs boson in association with a top quark, gb → tH ±, is explored in the mass range 200 to 600 GeV using multi-jet final states with one electron or muon. In order to separate the signal from the Standard Model background, analysis techniques combining several kinematic variables are employed. An excess of events above the background-only hypothesis is observed across a wide mass range, amounting to up to 2.4 standard deviations. Upper limits are set on the gb → tH ± production cross section times the branching fraction BR(H ± → tb). Additionally, the complementary s-channel production, qq ′ → H ±, is investigated through a reinterpretation of W ′ → tb searches in ATLAS. Final states with one electron or muon are relevant for H ± masses from 0.4 to 2.0 TeV, whereas the all-hadronic final state covers the range 1.5 to 3.0 TeV. In these search channels, no significant excesses from the predictions of the Standard Model are observed, and upper limits are placed on the qq ′ → H ± production cross section times the branching fraction BR(H ± → tb).
Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering; Higgs physics
Rights: © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published under an open access license. Please check the 'Copyright Information' section for details of this license and what re-use is permitted. If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and re-use information, please contact the Rights and Permissions team.
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)127
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2016)127
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