Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H[superscript ±] → W[superscript ±]Z Using pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
June 2015
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
Citation
Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, et al. “Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H[superscript ±] → W[superscript ±]Z Using pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.” Physical Review Letters 114, no. 23 (June 9, 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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Abstract
A search for a charged Higgs boson, H[superscript ±], decaying to a W[superscript ±] boson and a Z boson is presented. The search is based on 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The H[superscript ±] boson is assumed to be produced via vector-boson fusion and the decays W[superscript ±] → q[bar over q]′ and Z → e[superscript +]e[superscript −]/μ[superscript +]μ[superscript −] are considered. The search is performed in a range of charged Higgs boson masses from 200 to 1000 GeV. No evidence for the production of an H[superscript ±] boson is observed. Upper limits of 31–1020 fb at 95% C.L. are placed on the cross section for vector-boson fusion production of an H[superscript ±] boson times its branching fraction to W[superscript ±]Z. The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs triplet model.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801
