Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a C P -Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with e μ μ or μ μ μ in Proton-Proton Collisions at √ s = 13 TeV
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PhysRevLett.123.131802.pdf
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Author(s)
The CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Branden
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 CERN. A search for a light charged Higgs boson (H+) decaying to a W boson and a CP-odd Higgs boson (A) in final states with eμμ or μμμ is performed using data from pp collisions at s=13 TeV, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. In this search, it is assumed that the H+ boson is produced in decays of top quarks, and the A boson decays to two oppositely charged muons. The presence of signals for H+ boson masses between 100 and 160 GeV and A boson masses between 15 and 75 GeV is investigated. No evidence for the production of the H+ boson is found. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are obtained on the combined branching fraction for the decay chain, t→bH+→bW+A→bW+μ+μ-, of 1.9×10-6 to 8.6×10-6, depending on the masses of the H+ and A bosons. These are the first limits for these decay modes of the H+ and A bosons.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.131802
