10th Edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference

May 16 – 20, 2022
Europe/Zurich timezone

Muonic charged Higgs boson discovery channel at the LHC

May 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
1h
Theory poster Higgs Physics

Speaker

Mr Mohammed Boukidi (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech)

Description

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have an ambitious search program for charged Higgs bosons. The two main searches for $H^\pm$ at the LHC have traditionally been performed in the $\tau \nu$ and $t b$ decay channels, as they provide the opportunity to probe complementary regions of the Minimal SuperSymmetric Model (MSSM) parameter space. Charged Higgs bosons may decay also to light quarks, $H^\pm \to cs/cb$, which represent an additional probe for the mass range below $m_t$. In this work, we focus on $H^\pm \to \mu \nu$ as an alternative channel in the context of two Higgs doublet model type III. We explored the prospect of looking $pp\to tb H^\pm$, followed by $H^\pm\to\mu \nu$ signal at the LHC. Such a scenario appears in 2HDM type-III where couplings of the charged Higgs are enhanced to $\mu\nu$. Almost all the experimental searches rely on the production and decay of the charged Higgs are taken into account. We show that for a such scenario, the above signal is dominant for most of the parameter space, and $H^\pm\to \mu\nu$ can be an excellent complementary search.

Primary author

Mr Mohammed Boukidi (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech)

Co-authors

Prof. Rachid Benbrik (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech) Dr Souad Semlali (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton) Prof. Bouzid Manaut (Sultan Moulay Slimane University) Prof. Souad Taj (Sultan Moulay Slimane University) Mohamed Ouchemhou (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech)

Presentation materials

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