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Probing a light charged Higgs boson at the LHC Run 3

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-02-13 v1

Abstract

We study the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovery prospects of a light charged Higgs boson decaying into a WW boson and a non-Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs within the 2-Higgs Doublet Model type-I. In the analysis, we consider the associated production of a charged Higgs boson with a light neutral one, ppH±hpp \rightarrow H^{\pm} h, with the subsequent H±W±hH^\pm \rightarrow W^{\pm*} h. We then investigate the emerging W±+4bW^{\pm*} + 4b final state and provide several benchmark points for signal-to-background analysis. We therefore show that this signal could be an excellent avenue for identifying H±H^\pm at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.2310.12273,
  title  = {Probing a light charged Higgs boson at the LHC Run 3},
  author = {A. Arhrib and R. Benbrik and M. Krab and B. Manaut and S. Moretti and Y. Wang and Q. S. Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12273},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6 pages, 4 tables, contribution to the proceedings of the EPS-HEP2023 conference