Optimising charged Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider across bb̄W± final states

Charged Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC via Multiple bb̄W± Final States

We review the prospects of the Large Hadron Collider in accessing heavy charged Higgs boson signals in bb̄W± final states, wherein the contributing channels can be H+ → tb̄, hW±, HW± and AW±. In particular, we devise a selection strategy which optimizes their global yield. We consider a 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-II and we assume as production mode bg→ tH− + c.c., the dominant one over the range ...

Searches for the Higgs Boson at Lhc

The search strategy for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is reviewed, with a particular emphasis on its potential observation by the ATLAS and CMS detectors in the γγ, ττ, ZZ and WW ∗ final states. The combined Higgs discovery potential of ATLAS and CMS is discussed, as well as the expected exclusion limits on the production rate times the branching ratio as a functio...

2HDM Charged Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC: Status and Prospects

Data-driven estimation of the background to charged Higgs boson searches using hadronically-decaying τ final states in ATLAS

The experimental observation of charged Higgs bosons, H±, which are theoretically predicted by many non-minimal Higgs scenarios, would indicate new physics beyond the Standard Model. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, for example, the dominant production mode at the LHC for these Higgs bosons, when mH+ < mt, takes place in tt events via the top-quark decay t → Hb with H → τν dominati...

The phenomenology of W±H∓ production at the Large Hadron Collider

Barrientos Bendezú and Kniehl [1] recently suggested that WH associated production may be a useful channel in the search for the elusive heavy charged Higgs bosons of the 2 Higgs Doublet Model at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate the phenomenology of this mechanism in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with special attention paid to the most likely heavy Higgs decay, H → tb → bb̄...