Light charged Higgs boson with dominant decay to a charm quark and a bottom quark and its search at LEP2 and future e+e- colliders
Light charged Higgs boson with dominant decay to a charm quark and a bottom quark and its search at LEP2 and future e+e- colliders
The possibility of a light charged Higgs boson H± that decays predominantly to a charm quark and a bottom quark (cb) and with a mass in the range 80 GeV≤MH±≤90 GeV is studied in the context of a three-Higgs doublet model (3HDM). Searches for this decay at the Large Hadron Collider do not have sensitivity to this mass region at present. It is shown that the searches for H± at LEP2 could be supplemented by either one or two b-tags, which would enable such large branching ratios for H±→cb to be probed in the above mass region. We comment on the possibility of this 3HDM scenario to explain a slight excess in the searches for H± at LEP2, which is best fit by MH± of around 90 GeV, and discuss the prospects for detecting H±→cb decays at future e+e− colliders.
Akeroyd, A.G.
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Moretti, Stefano
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Song, Muyuan
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18 February 2020
Akeroyd, A.G.
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Moretti, Stefano
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Song, Muyuan
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Akeroyd, A.G., Moretti, Stefano and Song, Muyuan
(2020)
Light charged Higgs boson with dominant decay to a charm quark and a bottom quark and its search at LEP2 and future e+e- colliders.
Physical Review D, 101 (3), [035021].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.035021).
Abstract
The possibility of a light charged Higgs boson H± that decays predominantly to a charm quark and a bottom quark (cb) and with a mass in the range 80 GeV≤MH±≤90 GeV is studied in the context of a three-Higgs doublet model (3HDM). Searches for this decay at the Large Hadron Collider do not have sensitivity to this mass region at present. It is shown that the searches for H± at LEP2 could be supplemented by either one or two b-tags, which would enable such large branching ratios for H±→cb to be probed in the above mass region. We comment on the possibility of this 3HDM scenario to explain a slight excess in the searches for H± at LEP2, which is best fit by MH± of around 90 GeV, and discuss the prospects for detecting H±→cb decays at future e+e− colliders.
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PhysRevD.101.035021
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 January 2020
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