The Wh decay channel as a probe of charged Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

We analyse the chances of detecting charged Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the $W^{\pm }h$ mode, followed by the dominant decay of the lightest Higgs scalar, $h\to b\bar{b}$. If the actual value of $M_h$ is already known, this channel offers possibly the optimal final state kinematics for charged Higgs discovery, thanks to the narrow resonances appearing around the $W^{\pm }$ and $h$ masses. Besides, within the MSSM, the $H^{\pm }\to W^{\pm }h$ decay rate is significant for not too large $\tan \beta$ values, thus offering the possibility of accessing a region of MSSM parameter space left uncovered by other search channels. We consider both strong (QCD) and electroweak (EW) `irreducible' backgrounds in the $3b$-tagged channel to the $gg\to t\bar{b}{H}^{-}$ production process that had not been taken into account in previous analyses. After a series of kinematic cuts, the largest of these processes is $t\bar{b}{W}^{\pm }h$ production in the continuum. However, for optimum $\tan \beta$, i.e., between 2 and 3, the charged Higgs boson signal overcomes this background and a narrow discovery region survives around $M_{H^{\pm }}\approx 200$ GeV

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