Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay using Collisions at with the ATLAS Experiment
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille (France). et al.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Org.:
- ATLAS Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1184070
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1210177; OSTI ID: 1221137; OSTI ID: 1407307
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-108237-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 231801
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76CH03000; AC03-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 114 Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
G., Aad. 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. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801.
G., Aad. 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. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801
G., Aad. Tue .
"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". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801.
@article{osti_1184070,
title = {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},
author = {G., Aad},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 23,
volume = 114,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {6}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801
Web of Science
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