Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a CP -Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with eμμ or μμμ in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV

CMS Collaboration; Freya Blekman; Emil Sørensen Bols; Simranjit Singh Chhibra; Jorgen D'Hondt; Jarne De Clercq; Giannis Flouris; Denys Lontkovskyi; Steven Lowette; Ivan Marchesini; Seth Moortgat; Lieselotte Moreels; Quentin Python; Kirill Skovpen; Stefaan Tavernier; Walter Van Doninck; Petra Van Mulders; Isis Marina Van Parijs; Douglas Burns

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.131802

Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a CP -Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with eμμ or μμμ in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV

CMS Collaboration, Freya Blekman, Emil Sørensen Bols, Simranjit Singh Chhibra, Jorgen D'Hondt, Jarne De Clercq, Giannis Flouris, Denys Lontkovskyi, Steven Lowette, Ivan Marchesini, Seth Moortgat, Lieselotte Moreels, Quentin Python, Kirill Skovpen, Stefaan Tavernier, Walter Van Doninck, Petra Van Mulders, Isis Marina Van Parijs, Douglas Burns

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A search for a light charged Higgs boson (H+) decaying to a W boson and a CP-odd Higgs boson (A) in final states with eμμ or μμμ is performed using data from pp collisions at s=13 TeV, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. In this search, it is assumed that the H+ boson is produced in decays of top quarks, and the A boson decays to two oppositely charged muons. The presence of signals for H+ boson masses between 100 and 160 GeV and A boson masses between 15 and 75 GeV is investigated. No evidence for the production of the H+ boson is found. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are obtained on the combined branching fraction for the decay chain, t→bH+→bW+A→bW+μ+μ-, of 1.9×10-6 to 8.6×10-6, depending on the masses of the H+ and A bosons. These are the first limits for these decay modes of the H+ and A bosons.

Original language	English
Article number	131802
Number of pages	18
Journal	Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume	123
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.131802
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2019

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Collaboration, CMS., Blekman, F., Bols, E. S., Chhibra, S. S., D'Hondt, J., De Clercq, J., Flouris, G., Lontkovskyi, D., Lowette, S., Marchesini, I., Moortgat, S., Moreels, L., Python, Q., Skovpen, K., Tavernier, S., Van Doninck, W., Van Mulders, P., Van Parijs, I. M., & Burns, D. (2019). Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a CP -Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with eμμ or μμμ in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett., 123(13), Article 131802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.131802

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Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a CP -Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with eμμ or μμμ in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV

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