Search for Doubly and Singly Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying into Vector Bosons in Multi-Lepton Final States With the ATLAS Detector Using Proton-Proton Collisions at √ s= 13 TeV

Authors

Georges Aad, University of Aix-Marseille
Braden Abbott, University of OklahomaFollow
Dale C. Abbott, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
Adam Abed Abud, CERNFollow
Kira Abeling, Georg-August Universitat Gottingen
Deshan K. Abhayasinghe, Royal Holloway, University of London
Syed H. Abidi, Brookhaven National LaboratoryFollow
Ossama S. Alexander AbouZeid, University of Copenhagen
Nicola L. Abraham, University of Sussex at Brighton
Halina Abramowicz, Tel Aviv University

Publication Date

2021

Journal or Book Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

Abstract

A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into (WW +/-)-W-+/- or W(+/-)Z bosons is performed, involving experimental signatures with two leptons of the same charge, or three or four leptons with a variety of charge combinations, missing transverse momentum and jets. A data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018 is used. The data correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). The search is guided by a type-II seesaw model that extends the scalar sector of the Standard Model with a scalar triplet, leading to a phenomenology that includes doubly and singly charged Higgs bosons. Two scenarios are explored, corresponding to the pair production of doubly charged H-+/-+/- bosons, or the associated production of a doubly charged H-+/-+/- boson and a singly charged H-+/- boson. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are observed. H-+/-+/- bosons are excluded at 95% confidence level up to 350 GeV and 230 GeV for the pair and associated production modes, respectively.

ISSN

1029-8479

ORCID

de Almeida, Fernando Marroquim Leao/0000-0003-2265-784X; Kuze, Masahiro/0000-0001-8858-8440; Ciesla, Krzysztof/0000-0003-2751-3474; Gladilin, Leonid K./0000-0001-9422-8636; Kostyukhin, Vadim/0000-0002-0490-9209; de Renstrom, Pawel Bruckman/0000-0002-0206-1160; Trzebinski, Maciej/0000-0002-5151-7101; AGHEORGHIESEI, Catalin/0000-0003-3695-1847; Billoud, Thomas/0000-0002-6280-3306; Schioppa, Enrico Junior/0000-0002-1369-9944; Ozcan, Veysi Erkcan/0000-0003-4643-6347; Kroll, Jiri/0000-0001-6215-3326; Tikhomirov, Vladimir/0000-0002-9634-0581; Bailey, Adam J/0000-0002-3301-2986; Chwastowski, Janusz J./0000-0002-6190-8376; Snesarev, Andrei/0000-0002-9067-8362; Lee, Shih-Chang/0000-0002-3353-2658; Sopczak, Andre/0000-0001-6981-0544; Grinstein, Sebastian/0000-0002-6460-8694; Alimonti, Gianluca/0000-0002-7128-9046; Llacer, Maria Moreno/0000-0003-1113-3645; Barreiro, Fernando/0000-0002-3021-0258; Vaniachine, Alexandre/0000-0002-0367-5666; Smirnova, Oxana G/0000-0003-2517-531X; Ohm, Christian/0000-0002-8015-7512; Camplani, Alessandra/0000-0002-6386-9788; Saoucha, Kamal/0000-0001-9150-640X; McKee, Shawn/0000-0002-4551-4502; Calafiura, Paolo/0000-0002-1692-1678; Konstantinidis, Nikolaos/0000-0002-4140-6360; Petersen, Troels/0000-0003-0221-3037; Butterworth, Jonathan/0000-0002-5905-5394

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)146

Issue

6

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Recommended Citation

Aad, Georges; Abbott, Braden; Abbott, Dale C.; Abed Abud, Adam; Abeling, Kira; Abhayasinghe, Deshan K.; Abidi, Syed H.; Alexander AbouZeid, Ossama S.; Abraham, Nicola L.; and Abramowicz, Halina, "Search for Doubly and Singly Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying into Vector Bosons in Multi-Lepton Final States With the ATLAS Detector Using Proton-Proton Collisions at √ s= 13 TeV" (2021). Journal of High Energy Physics. 1282.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)146