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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aad, G

Titel

Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H+ or - arrow right W+ or -Z using pp Collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2015-06, Vol.114 (23)

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A search for a charged Higgs boson, H+ or -, decaying to a W+ or - 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+ or - boson is assumed to be produced via vector-boson fusion and the decays W+ or - arrow right qq' super(-) and Z arrow right 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+ or - 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+ or - boson times its branching fraction to W+ or -Z. The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs triplet model.