Prospects for charged Higgs searches at the LHC
Abstract
The goal of this report is to summarize the current situation and discuss possible search strategies for charged scalars, in non-supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC. Such scalars appear in Multi-Higgs-Doublet models (MHDM), in particular in the popular Two-Higgs-Doublet model (2HDM), allowing for charged and additional neutral Higgs bosons. These models have the attractive property that electroweak precision observables are automatically in agreement with the Standard Model at the tree level. For the most popular version of this framework, Model~II, a discovery of a charged Higgs boson remains challenging, since the parameter space is becoming very constrained, and the QCD background is very high. We also briefly comment on models with dark matter which constrain the corresponding charged scalars that occur in these models. The stakes of a possible discovery of an extended scalar sector are very high, and these searches should be pursued in all conceivable channels, at the LHC and at future colliders.
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@article{arxiv.1607.01320,
title = {Prospects for charged Higgs searches at the LHC},
author = {A. G. Akeroyd and M. Aoki and A. Arhrib and L. Basso and I. F. Ginzburg and R. Guedes and J. Hernandez-Sanchez and K. Huitu and T. Hurth and M. Kadastik and S. Kanemura and mK. Kannike and W. Khater and M. Krawczyk and F. Mahmoudi and S. Moretti and S. Najjari and P. Osland and G. M. Pruna and M. Purmohammadi and A. Racioppi and M. Raidal and R. Santos and P. Sharma and D. Sokołowska and O. Stål and K. Yagyu and E. Yildirim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01320},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
65 pages, revised version to appear in EPJ C