Published April 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Exploring a heavy charged Higgs using jet substructure in a fully hadronic channel

  • 1. ARC Center of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005 (Australia)

Description

In the framework of the type-II Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM-II) a charged Higgs search strategy is presented for the dominant production mode gbtH± at the 14 TeV LHC. We consider the decay process which includes tbW± and H±AW±, and a fully hadronic final state consisting of bbb¯+jets+X. Dictated by the bsγ constraints which render MH±>480GeV we study two scenarios in which the charged Higgs mass is 750 GeV and the pseudoscalar Higgs mass is 200 GeV and 500 GeV. In this mass scheme highly boosted final state objects are expected and handled with jet substructure techniques which also acts to suppress the standard model background. A detailed detector analysis is performed, followed by a multivariate analysis involving many kinematic variables to optimize signal to background significance. Finally the LHC search sensitivities for the two scenarios are presented for various integrated luminosities.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.01.031

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.01.031;
arXiv
arXiv:1610.05917v1;
PII
S0550321317300457;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
917
Journal Page Range
p. 19-30
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.