Symmetry (Dec 2021)

New Light <i>H</i><sup>±</sup> Discovery Channels at the LHC

  • Abdesslam Arhrib,
  • Rachid Benbrik,
  • Mohamed Krab,
  • Bouzid Manaut,
  • Stefano Moretti,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Qi-Shu Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
p. 2319

Abstract

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A light charged Higgs boson has been searched for at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via top (anti)quark decay, i.e., t→bH+, if kinematically allowed. In this contribution, we propose new channels for light charged Higgs boson searches via the pair productions pp→H±h/A and pp→H+H− at the LHC in the context of the Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I. By focusing on a case where the heavy H state is the Standard Model (SM)-like one already observed, we investigate the production of the aforementioned charged Higgs bosons and their bosonic decay channels, namely, H±→W±h and/or H±→W±A. We demonstrate that such production and decay channels can yield substantial alternative discovery channels for H± bosons at the LHC. Finally, we propose eight benchmark points (BPs) to motivate the search for such signatures.

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