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Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in association with a top quark and decaying via H± → τν using pp collision data recorded at √s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1253-8583
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics.
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Number of Authors: 28512016 (English)In: Physics Letters B, ISSN 0370-2693, E-ISSN 1873-2445, Vol. 759, p. 555-574Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Charged Higgs bosons produced in association with a single top quark and decaying via H ± → τ ν are searched for with the \{ATLAS\} experiment at the LHC, using proton–proton collision data at s = 13   TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2   fb − 1 . The final state is characterised by the presence of a hadronic τ decay and missing transverse momentum, as well as a hadronically decaying top quark, resulting in the absence of high-transverse-momentum electrons and muons. The data are found to be consistent with the expected background from Standard Model processes. A statistical analysis leads to 95% confidence-level upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction, σ ( p p → [ b ] t H ± ) × \{BR\} ( H ± → τ ν ) , between 1.9 pb and 15 fb, for charged Higgs boson masses ranging from 200 to 2000 GeV. The exclusion limits for this search surpass those obtained with the proton–proton collision data recorded at s = 8   TeV. 

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2016. Vol. 759, p. 555-574
Keywords [en]
Higgs, charged higgs, atlas, tau, mssm, 2hdm
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Subatomic Physics
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Physics with specialization in Elementary Particle Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304285DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.017ISI: 000380409200074OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-304285DiVA, id: diva2:1015013
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ATLAS Collaboration, for complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.017

Available from: 2016-10-03 Created: 2016-10-03 Last updated: 2017-11-30Bibliographically approved
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1. Searches for Higgs bosons with hadronically decaying τ-leptons: Using Grid and Cloud computing techniques
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Searches for Higgs bosons with hadronically decaying τ-leptons: Using Grid and Cloud computing techniques
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This thesis describes a measurement of the Standard Model Higgs boson coupling to fermions in decays to two τ-leptons, a search for charged Higgs bosons in decays to a τ-lepton and a neutrino, as well as the reconstruction, identification and triggering of hadronically decaying τ-leptons. The data considered are collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The reconstruction and identification of hadronically decaying τ-leptons in the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider are described, and the performance of the τ trigger is measured in events with top–antitop-quark pairs using data from 13 TeV proton–proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1, collected in 2015, and 11.5 fb-1, collected in 2016.

Hadronically decaying τ-leptons are of importance to many physical processes involving Higgs bosons. The coupling of the Standard Model Higgs boson to fermions is measured in decays to two τ-leptons using 7 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb-1, collected in 2011, and 8 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1, collected in 2012. The signal strength is measured to be μ = 1.4, corresponding to an excess over the background-only model of 4.5σ.

Charged Higgs bosons are searched for in decays to a τ-lepton and a neutrino, where the τ-lepton decays hadronically. 13 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.7 fb-1, collected in 2015 and 2016, are used. No excess over the Standard Model background is observed, and the 95 % confidence-level exclusion limits on σ(pp → [b]tH+) × (H+ → τν) are set to 2.0 pb–8 fb in the range 200–2000 GeV.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016. p. 111
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1434
Keywords
LHC, ATLAS, Higgs, Charged Higgs, Tau lepton, 2HDM, MSSM
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Subatomic Physics
Research subject
Physics with specialization in Elementary Particle Physics
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304291 (URN)978-91-554-9706-4 (ISBN)
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2016-11-21, Polhemsalen, 10134, Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala, 13:00 (English)
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