Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H-+/- -> W(+/-)Z using pp Collisions at root S=8 TeV with the ATLAS ExperimentShow others and affiliations
2015 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 114, no 23, article id 231801Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A search for a charged Higgs boson, H-+/-, decaying to a W-+/- boson and a Z boson is presented. The search is based on 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The H-+/- boson is assumed to be produced via vector-boson fusion and the decays W-+/- -> q (q') over bar and Z -> e(+)e(-)/mu(+)mu(-) are considered. The search is performed in a range of charged Higgs boson masses from 200 to 1000 GeV. No evidence for the production of an H+ boson is observed. Upper limits of 31-1020 fb at 95% C.L. are placed on the cross section for vector-boson fusion production of an H-+/- boson times its branching fraction to W(+/-)Z. The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs triplet model.
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2015. Vol. 114, no 23, article id 231801
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Physical Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-257801DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801ISI: 000355833300001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-257801DiVA, id: diva2:840564
Note
ATLAS Collaboration, for complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.231801
2015-07-082015-07-082017-12-04Bibliographically approved