Charged-Higgs collider signals with or without flavor
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Muenchen (Germany)
- Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Dortmund (Germany)
- SUPA, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
- ASC, Department fuer Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Germany)
A charged Higgs boson is a clear signal for an extended Higgs sector, as, for example, predicted by supersymmetry. Squark mixing can significantly change the pattern of charged-Higgs production and most notably circumvent the chiral suppression for single Higgs production. We evaluate the CERN LHC discovery potential in the light of flavor physics, in the single-Higgs production channel and in association with a hard jet for small and moderate values of tan{beta}. Thoroughly examining current flavor constraints we find that nonminimal flavor structures can have a sizable impact but tend to predict moderate production rates. Nevertheless, charged-Higgs searches will probe flavor structures not accessible to rare kaon, bottom, or charm experiments and can invalidate the assumption of minimal flavor violation.
- OSTI ID:
- 21205098
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.115001; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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