Search for charged Higgs bosons through the violation of lepton universality in tt events using pp collision data at √S=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

G. Aad; T. Abajyan; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; A. A. Abdelalim; O. Abdinov; R. Aben; B. Abi; M. Abolins; O. S. Abouzeid; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; B. S. Acharya; L. Adamczyk; D. L. Adams; T. N. Addy; J. Adelman; S. Adomeit; P. Adragna; T. Adye; S. Aefsky; J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra; M. Agustoni; M. Aharrouche; S. P. Ahlen; F. Ahles; A. Ahmad; M. Ahsan; G. Aielli; T. P.A. Åkesson; G. Akimoto; A. V. Akimov; M. A. Alam; J. Albert; S. Albrand; M. Aleksa; I. N. Aleksandrov; F. Alessandria; C. Alexa; G. Alexander; G. Alexandre; T. Alexopoulos; M. Alhroob; M. Aliev; G. Alimonti; J. Alison; B. M.M. Allbrooke; P. P. Allport; S. E. Allwood-Spiers

doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2013)076

Search for charged Higgs bosons through the violation of lepton universality in tt events using pp collision data at √S=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A. A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, O. S. Abouzeid, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, B. S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, D. L. Adams, T. N. Addy, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, P. AdragnaT. Adye, S. Aefsky, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, M. Agustoni, M. Aharrouche, S. P. Ahlen, F. Ahles, A. Ahmad, M. Ahsan, G. Aielli, T. P.A. Åkesson, G. Akimoto, A. V. Akimov, M. A. Alam, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M. Aleksa, I. N. Aleksandrov, F. Alessandria, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, G. Alexandre, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, M. Aliev, G. Alimonti, J. Alison, B. M.M. Allbrooke, P. P. Allport, S. E. Allwood-Spiers

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In several extensions of the Standard Model, the top quark can decay into a bottom quark and a light charged Higgs boson H ⁺, t → bH ⁺, in addition to the Standard Model decay t → bW. Since W bosons decay to the three lepton generations equally, while H ⁺ maypredominantlydecayinto τν, charged Higgs bosons can be searched for using the violation of lepton universality in top quark decays. The analysis in this paper is based on 4.6 fb^-1 of proton-proton collision data at √s=7 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Signatures containing leptons (e or μ) and/or a hadronically decaying τ (τ _had) are used. Event yield ratios between e + τ _had and e + μ, as well as between μ + τ _had andμ + e, final states are measured in the data and compared to predictions from simulations. This ratio-based method reduces the impact of systematic uncertainties in the analysis. No significant deviation from the Standard Model predictions is observed. With the assumption that the branching fraction ℬ (H ⁺ → τν) is 100%, upper limits in the range 3.2%-4.4% can be placed on the branching fraction ℬ (t → bH ⁺) for charged Higgs boson masses m _H+ in the range 90-140 GeV. After combination with results from a search for charged Higgs bosons in t\overline{t} decays using the τ _had + jets final state, upper limits on ℬ (t → bH ⁺) can be set in the range 0.8%-3.4%, for m _H+ in the range 90-160 GeV.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English (US)
Article number	076
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2013
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2013)076
State	Published - 2013

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Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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Aad, G., Abajyan, T., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Khalek, S. A., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Abolins, M., Abouzeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Acharya, B. S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D. L., Addy, T. N., Adelman, J., Adomeit, S., ... Allwood-Spiers, S. E. (2013). Search for charged Higgs bosons through the violation of lepton universality in tt events using pp collision data at √S=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(3), [076]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2013)076

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