Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H ± → W ± Z using p p Collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment

G., Aad

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801

Title: Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay $H^{\pm} \to W^{\pm} Z$ using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Experiment

Journal Article · Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801· OSTI ID:1184070

G., Aad ^[1]

Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille (France). et al.

A search for a charged Higgs boson, H^±, decaying to a W^± boson and a Z boson is presented. The search is based on 20.3 fb^–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^± boson is assumed to be produced via vector-boson fusion and the decays W^± → qq¯' and Z → e⁺e^–/μ⁺μ^– 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^± 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^± boson times its branching fraction to W^±Z. The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs triplet model.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: ATLAS Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76CH03000; AC03-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1184070

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1210177; OSTI ID: 1221137; OSTI ID: 1407307

Report Number(s):: BNL-108237-2015-JA; PRLTAO; 231801

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 114 Journal Issue: 23; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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