26–30 Jul 2021
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The forgotten channels: charged Higgs boson decays to a $W^\pm$ and a non-SM-like Higgs boson

26 Jul 2021, 16:00
15m
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Parallel session talk Searches for New Physics T10: Searches for New Physics

Speaker

Jonas Wittbrodt (Lund University)

Description

The presence of charged Higgs bosons is a generic prediction of multiplet extensions of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector. Focusing on the Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM), we discuss the charged Higgs boson collider phenomenology in the theoretically and experimentally viable parameter space. While almost all existing experimental searches at the LHC target the fermionic decays of charged Higgs bosons, we point out that the bosonic decay channels --- especially the decay into a non-SM-like Higgs boson and a $W$ boson --- often dominate over the fermionic channels. We propose several benchmark scenarios with distinct phenomenological features in order to facilitate the design of dedicated LHC searches for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a $W$ boson and a non-SM-like Higgs boson.

First author Jonas Wittbrodt
Email jonas.wittbrodt@thep.lu.se
Collaboration / Activity none

Primary author

Jonas Wittbrodt (Lund University)

Co-authors

Henning Bahl (T (Phenomenology)) Tim Stefaniak (T (Phenomenology))

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