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Detecting an Intermediate Mass Charged Higgs at $\gamma \gamma$ Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

The detection of an intermediate mass charged Higgs boson at \gamgam\gamgam colliders via the modes \gamgamH+Hντ+νˉτ, csˉcˉs, \gamgam \to H^+ H^- \to \nu \tau^+ \bar{\nu} \tau^-,~ c \bar{s} \bar{c} s,~ and ντ+cˉs+csˉνˉτ \nu \tau^+ \bar{c}s + c \bar{s} \bar{\nu} \tau^- is considered. W+WW^+ W^- boson pair production is the dominant background for these modes. The three modes may be used in a complementary fashion to detect a charged Higgs boson. The mixed leptonic-hadronic mode may be used to determine the charged Higgs mass by reconstructing the invariant hadronic mass. The sensitivity of Br(H+csˉ,ντ+)(H^+ \rightarrow c\bar s,\,\nu \tau^+) on the discovery limit of the charged Higgs boson is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9304290,
  title  = {Detecting an Intermediate Mass Charged Higgs at $\gamma \gamma$ Colliders},
  author = {David Bowser-Chao and Kingman Cheung and Scott Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9304290},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex file, 13 pages, 8 figures (available by anonymous ftp at utaphy/UTTG-preprints in the files phohiggs1.ps and phohiggs2.ps), preprint NUHEP-TH-93-7, CPP-93-6, UTTG-8-93 (minor typos corrected)