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

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2021)145

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

The ATLAS collaboration

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Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
CERN
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
University of Massachusetts
University of Göttingen
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Toronto
University of Copenhagen
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Argonne National Laboratory
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Université Grenoble Alpes
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Bogazici University
Istanbul University
University of Geneva
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of California at Santa Cruz
Université Paris-Saclay
Université Clermont Auvergne
Radboud University Nijmegen
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
IFT-UAM/CSIC
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
McGill University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC

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Abstract

A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark is presented. The data analysed correspond to 139 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The production of a heavy charged Higgs boson in association with a top quark and a bottom quark, pp → tbH⁺ → tbtb, is explored in the H⁺ mass range from 200 to 2000 GeV using final states with jets and one electron or muon. Events are categorised according to the multiplicity of jets and b-tagged jets, and multivariate analysis 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; they range from 3.6 pb at 200 GeV to 0.036 pb at 2000 GeV at 95% confidence level. The results are interpreted in the hMSSM and Mh125 scenarios. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	145
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2021
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)145
State	Published - Jun 2021

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

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