Abstract
A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into W±W± or W±Z bosons is performed, involving experimental signatures with two leptons of the same charge, or three or four leptons with a variety of charge combinations, missing transverse momentum and jets. A data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018 is used. The data correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The search is guided by a type-II seesaw model that extends the scalar sector of the Standard Model with a scalar triplet, leading to a phenomenology that includes doubly and singly charged Higgs bosons. Two scenarios are explored, corresponding to the pair production of doubly charged H±± bosons, or the associated production of a doubly charged H±± boson and a singly charged H± boson. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are observed. H±± bosons are excluded at 95% confidence level up to 350 GeV and 230 GeV for the pair and associated production modes, respectively.
Highlights
Background estimationThe background sources can be divided into two main categories
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Background from W W production is estimated from simulation if the two W bosons have the same electric charge and from data if the two W bosons have opposite electric charge, since the latter only contributes through electron charge-flip and non-prompt leptons
Summary
The production cross sections for H±± pair production with the same mass settings as for associated production of H±± and H± bosons can be large This production mode is exactly the one described in the first scenario and it is not considered in the second scenario. For the H±± pair production mode, the mixing between the CP-even scalars is taken to be 10−4 and the remaining five couplings in the potential are adjusted to obtain a given H±± boson mass hypothesis while requiring h0 to have a mass of 125 GeV. The CMS collaboration published results for the H±± → W ±W ± decay mode in the context of single H±± production through vector-boson fusion with vt values of a few tens of GeV, for a model with two Higgs triplets [44,45,46]. A direct search for H±± pair production with decays to W ±W ± pairs has been performed on a smaller data set by the ATLAS collaboration [23], validating the principle of such an approach
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