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Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics.
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: 29212018 (English)In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, no 11, article id 085Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A search for charged Higgs bosons heavier than the top quark and decaying via H-+/- tb is presented. The data analysed corresponds to 36.1 fb(-1) of pp collisions at TeV and was recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. The production of a charged Higgs boson in association with a top quark and a bottom quark, pp tbH(+/-), is explored in the mass range from m(H)+/- = 200 to 2000 GeV using multi-jet final states with one or two electrons or muons. Events are categorised according to the multiplicity of jets and how likely these are to have originated from hadronisation of a bottom quark. Multivariate techniques are used to discriminate between signal and background events. No significant excess above the background-only hypothesis is observed and exclusion limits are derived for the production cross-section times branching ratio of a charged Higgs boson as a function of its mass, which range from 2.9 pb at m(H)+/- = 200 GeV to 0.070 pb at m(H)+/- = 2000 GeV. The results are interpreted in two benchmark scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

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2018. no 11, article id 085
Keywords [en]
Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics
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Subatomic Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-372715DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2018)085ISI: 000450508300001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-372715DiVA, id: diva2:1276558
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Swedish Research CouncilEU, European Research CouncilEU, Horizon 2020
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For complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)085

Available from: 2019-01-08 Created: 2019-01-08 Last updated: 2019-07-31Bibliographically approved
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1. Exploration of extended Higgs sectors, development of a displaced track trigger, and improvements in GRID middleware
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Exploration of extended Higgs sectors, development of a displaced track trigger, and improvements in GRID middleware
2019 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Two possible solutions to the Standard Model (SM) fine-tuning problem are presented in this thesis, MSSM and Compositeness. The Higgs sector of the MSSM can be tested by searching for charged Higgs bosons. Two direct searches for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a top- and bottom-quark are performed using 13.2 and 36.1 fb¹ respectively of pp collision data collected at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. No significant excess over the SM background is observed and upper limits on σ(pp→tbH+B(H+→tb) between 0.07 and 2.9 pb are set at a 95% confidence level in the charged Higgs boson mass range 200–2000 GeV using the CLs method. The phenomenology of a vector-like top-partner decaying into a BSM (pseudo-) scalar is explored and interpreted in 2HDM and Compositeness models. The experimental reach is evaluated using γγ and Zγ final states, and the LHC is determined to be sensitive to top-partner and (pseudo-) scalar masses in the 1–2 TeV range both in the Run 2 and expected Run 3 datasets. Two hardware based hit collection methods targeting long-lived particles are studied for a regional track trigger in anticipation of the HL-LHC upgrade. The efficiency is estimated to be ~20% for a wide range of track parameters for tracks originating from a displaced vertex. The prospect of using GPU-computing on the LHC GRID is considered. Extensions of the ARC middleware Information Providers integrating local GPU information are demonstrated.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2019. p. 95
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1829
Keywords
BSM, Supersymmetry, Standard Model, Higgs, 2HDM, Charged Higgs, Compositeness, Pattern Matching, GRID
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Subatomic Physics
Research subject
Physics with specialization in Elementary Particle Physics
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389896 (URN)978-91-513-0700-8 (ISBN)
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2019-09-20, Häggsalen, Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala, 13:00 (English)
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