Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying to charm and bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s}=8 TeV

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Covarelli,S Đurić ,C S Moon,C.-E Wulz,I Marchesini,M Besançon ,A Messineo,A Ledovskoy,J Hauser,M Oglakci,H J Simonis,F Rezaei Hosseinabadi,D R Mendis,V Kim,Y Y Li,D Creanza,P C Tiwari,M Dragicevic,H Kirschenmann,A Çakır ,T Eichhorn,N Béni ,J Keaveney,F Lacroix,T Maënpaä

doi:10.1007/jhep11(2018)115

Abstract

A search for charged Higgs boson decaying to a charm and a bottom quark ( {mathrm{H}}^{+}to mathrm{c}overline{mathrm{b}} ) is performed using 19.7 fb−1 of pp collision data at sqrt{s}=8 TeV. The production mechanism investigated in this search is mathrm{t}overline{mathrm{t}} pair production in which one top quark decays to a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark and the other decays to a charged lepton, a neutrino, and a bottom quark. Charged Higgs boson decays to mathrm{c}overline{mathrm{b}} are searched for, resulting in a final state containing at least four jets, a charged lepton (muon or electron), and missing transverse momentum. A kinematic fit is performed to identify the pair of jets least likely to be the bottom quarks originating from direct top quark decays and the invariant mass of this pair is used as the final observable in the search. No evidence for the presence of a charged Higgs boson is observed and upper limits at 95% confidence level of 0.8–0.5% are set on the branching fraction ℬ(t → H+b), assuming ℬ(H+ → mathrm{c}overline{mathrm{b}} ) = 1.0 and ℬ(t → H+b) + ℬ(t → Wb) = 1.0, for the charged Higgs boson mass range 90–150 GeV.

Highlights

Event simulation and reconstruction with CMS detectorBackground samples of tt, tt+W/Z, and W/Z+jets are simulated at leading order (LO) using the MadGraph 5.1 generator [45] with the CTEQ6L1 parton distribution function (PDF) set [46]
A kinematic fit is performed to identify the pair of jets least likely to be the bottom quarks originating from direct top quark decays and the invariant mass of this pair is used as the final observable in the search
A kinematic fit is performed to identify the pair of jets least likely to be the b quarks originating from direct top quark decays

Summary

Event simulation and reconstruction with CMS detector

Background samples of tt, tt+W/Z, and W/Z+jets are simulated at leading order (LO) using the MadGraph 5.1 generator [45] with the CTEQ6L1 parton distribution function (PDF) set [46]. The simulated W/Z+jets samples are normalized to the NNLO cross section calculated with fewz 3.1 [54, 55], and tt+W/Z events are normalized to the next-to-leading order (NLO) cross section [56, 57]. The charged Higgs boson signal events (tt → bH+bW− → bbcb ν) are simulated using the pythia v6.4 and CTEQ6L1 PDF set for MH+ = 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, and 150 GeV. These samples are normalized to the SM tt cross section in lepton+jets channel.

Event selection and yields

Reconstruction of tt events

Systematic uncertainties

Results

Summary