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Title: Charged-Higgs- and R-parity violating slepton-strahlung at hadron colliders

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, (Switzerland)
  2. Laboratoire de Physique Mathematique et Theorique, Universite de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, (France)
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019 (United States)

It is shown that the radiation of a charged Higgs boson off a third-generation quark (charged-Higgs-strahlung) provides an important channel for the discovery of the charged Higgs boson at hadron colliders. Equivalently, in supersymmetric models with explicit lepton-number (R-parity) violation, sleptons may also be produced in association with quarks (slepton-strahlung). Higgs- and slepton-strahlung production cross sections are given for both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC cross sections imply that heavy O(TeV) charged Higgs bosons can be produced via charged-Higgs-strahlung and that strahlung production of charged sleptons is possible even for small R-parity violating couplings. The possible discovery of sleptons through this channel offers a surprising handle on models of neutrino masses. (c) 1999 The American Physical Society.

OSTI ID:
20218051
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 60, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: 1 Dec 1999; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English