Signals of top quarks with charged-Higgs-boson decay at p p colliders

Journal Article · Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.40.2875· OSTI ID:5004884

Barger, V ^[1]; Phillips, R J.N. ^[2]

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1. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (USA)
2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, England (UK)

If the top quark decays dominantly via a charged Higgs boson {ital t}{r arrow}{ital bH}{sup +}, as occurs if {ital m}{sub {ital t}}{lt}M{sub W}+m{sub b} and {ital m}{sub {ital H}{sup {plus minus}}}{lt}m{sub t}{minus}m{sub b}, the conventional top-quark signals at {ital p{bar p}} colliders (based on {ital t}{r arrow}{ital bW}{sup *} charged-current decays) are suppressed. Distinctive new signals appear, based on {ital H}{sup +}{r arrow}{bar {tau}}{nu} decays; they include events with large missing {ital p}{sub {ital T}}, events with isolated {tau} jets or leptons plus hadronic jets, and events with two isolated {tau} jets. We calculate typical cross sections and distributions for the Fermilab Tevatron {ital p{bar p}} collider; the results are sensitive to the {ital H}{r arrow}{tau}{nu} branching fraction, that may well be large.

• OSTI ID: 5004884
• Journal Information: Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA), Vol. 40:9; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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