# ICHEP 2016 Chicago

3-10 August 2016
Chicago IL USA
US/Central timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

## Probing H+ with the mu_x boosted bottom-jet tag

Aug 8, 2016, 6:30 PM
2h
Riverwalk A/B

### Riverwalk A/B

Poster Higgs Physics

### Speaker

Keith Pedersen (Illinois Institute of Technology)

### Description

We present the discovery potential for a TeV-scale charged Higgs using 100--300 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ of 13--14 TeV LHC data. While $H^+$ is predicted by a generic two Higgs doublet model, strong phenomenological constraints restrict our focus to type-II models in the alignment limit. We examine $H^+$ produced in association with, and decaying to, 3rd generation quarks ($pp\to \bar{t} b (H^+\to t \bar b)$). The $H^+\to t \bar b$ final state gives $H^+$ superior reach (compared to its neutral $H/A$ siblings) in the critical wedge'' region ($\tan(\beta) = 2 \text{--} 20$), where the dominant neutral coupling transitions from $y_t^{}$ to $y_b^{}$. We tag massive $H^+\to t\bar{b}$ by pairing a high-efficiency boosted-top tag with our low fake-rate $\mu_x^{}$ boosted bottom-jet tag (which rejects light jets ${\sim}10$ times better than prior $b$~tags). The success of the $\mu_x^{}$ tag to suppress the QCD background for $H^+$ events further validates its usefulness in the high-$p_T^{}$ regime (as has already been demonstrated in generic $W^\prime$ and leptophobic $Z^\prime$ searches).

### Primary authors

Keith Pedersen (Illinois Institute of Technology) Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)