Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quarks inpp¯Collisions ats=1.96  TeV

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doi:10.1103/physrevlett.103.101803

Abstract

We report the recent charged Higgs search in top quark decays in 2.2/fb CDF data. This is the first attempt to search for charged Higgs using fully reconstructed mass assuming H->c-sbar in small tan beta region. No evidence of a charged Higgs is observed in the CDF data, hence 95% upper limits are placed at B(t->H+b) < 0.1-0.3. The upper limits can be used to limit the generic non-SM charged boson production in top quark decays.

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