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Enhanced Three-Body Decay of the Charged Higgs Boson

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

If the charged Higgs boson H+ exists with mh < mt + mb, the conventional expectation is that it will decay dominantly into c s-bar and tau+ nu-tau. However, the three-body decay mode H+ --> W+ b b-bar is also present and we show that it becomes very important in the low tan(beta) region for mh >~ 140 GeV. We explore its phenomenological implications for the charged-Higgs-boson search in top-quark decay.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9710447,
  title  = {Enhanced Three-Body Decay of the Charged Higgs Boson},
  author = {Ernest Ma and D. P Roy and Jose Wudka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9710447},
  year   = {2009}
}

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