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Scattering Interference effects on $H^+\to t\bar b$ Signals in MSSM Benchmark Scenarios

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-03-06 v1

Abstract

In this talk an investigation into the interference effects between the process pptˉbH+pp\to \bar{t}bH^+ followed by the decay H+tbˉH^+ \to t\bar{b} and the background process ppttˉbbˉpp \to t\bar{t}b\bar{b} is presented. The level of interference in parts of the parameter space is shown to be high and as such it may spoil the results of typical analyses which treat signal and background as independent. This is shown for two benchmarks of the MSSM.

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@article{arxiv.2003.02435,
  title  = {Scattering Interference effects on $H^+\to t\bar b$ Signals in MSSM Benchmark Scenarios},
  author = {Abdesslam Arhrib and Duarte Azevedo and Rachid Benbrik and Hicham Harouiz and Stefano Moretti and Riley Patrick and Rui Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02435},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Presented at CHEP 2019 - 24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables