Charged-Higgs Collider Signals with or without Flavor
Abstract
A charged Higgs boson is a clear signal for an extended Higgs sector, as for example predicted by supersymmetry. Squark mixing can significantly change the pattern of charged-Higgs production and most notably circumvent the chiral suppression for single Higgs production. We evaluate the LHC discovery potential in the light of flavor physics, in the single-Higgs production channel and in association with a hard jet for small and moderate values of tan beta. Thoroughly examining current flavor constraints we find that non-minimal flavor structures can have a sizeable impact, but tend to predict moderate production rates. Nevertheless, charged-Higgs searches will probe flavor structures not accessible to rare kaon, bottom, or charm experiments, and can invalidate the assumption of minimal flavor violation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.0940,
title = {Charged-Higgs Collider Signals with or without Flavor},
author = {Stefan Dittmaier and Gudrun Hiller and Tilman Plehn and Michael Spannowsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0940},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
21 pages, 8 figures; references and comments on backgrounds added, typos removed, appendix extended