New Light H± Discovery Channels at the LHC

Arhrib, Abdesslam; Benbrik, Rachid; Krab, Mohamed; Manaut, Bouzid; Moretti, Stefano; Wang, Yan; Yan, Qi-Shu

doi:10.3390/sym13122319

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New Light H^± Discovery Channels at the LHC

by

Abdesslam Arhrib

¹,

Rachid Benbrik

²,

Mohamed Krab

^3,*

,

Bouzid Manaut

³

,

Stefano Moretti

⁴,

Yan Wang

⁵

and

Qi-Shu Yan

^6,7

¹

Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tanger 90000, Morocco

²

Laboratoire de Physique Fondamentale et Appliquée Safi, Faculté Polydisciplinaire de Safi, Safi 46000, Morocco

³

Polydisciplinary Faculty, Research Team in Theoretical Physics and Materials (RTTPM), Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal 23000, Morocco

⁴

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

⁵

College of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China

⁶

Center for Future High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

⁷

School of Physics Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Symmetry 2021, 13(12), 2319; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319

Submission received: 9 October 2021 / Revised: 4 November 2021 / Accepted: 22 November 2021 / Published: 4 December 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry, Collider Phenomenology and High Energy Physics)

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Abstract

A light charged Higgs boson has been searched for at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via top (anti)quark decay, i.e.,

t \to b H^{+}

, if kinematically allowed. In this contribution, we propose new channels for light charged Higgs boson searches via the pair productions

p p \to H^{\pm} h / A

and

p p \to H^{+} H^{-}

at the LHC in the context of the Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I. By focusing on a case where the heavy H state is the Standard Model (SM)-like one already observed, we investigate the production of the aforementioned charged Higgs bosons and their bosonic decay channels, namely,

H^{\pm} \to W^{\pm} h

and/or

H^{\pm} \to W^{\pm} A

. We demonstrate that such production and decay channels can yield substantial alternative discovery channels for

H^{\pm}

bosons at the LHC. Finally, we propose eight benchmark points (BPs) to motivate the search for such signatures.

Keywords: physics beyond the Standard Model; charged Higgs boson; Large Hadron Collider

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Arhrib, A.; Benbrik, R.; Krab, M.; Manaut, B.; Moretti, S.; Wang, Y.; Yan, Q.-S. New Light H^± Discovery Channels at the LHC. Symmetry 2021, 13, 2319. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319

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Arhrib A, Benbrik R, Krab M, Manaut B, Moretti S, Wang Y, Yan Q-S. New Light H^± Discovery Channels at the LHC. Symmetry. 2021; 13(12):2319. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319

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Arhrib, Abdesslam, Rachid Benbrik, Mohamed Krab, Bouzid Manaut, Stefano Moretti, Yan Wang, and Qi-Shu Yan. 2021. "New Light H^± Discovery Channels at the LHC" Symmetry 13, no. 12: 2319. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319

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Arhrib, A., Benbrik, R., Krab, M., Manaut, B., Moretti, S., Wang, Y., & Yan, Q.-S. (2021). New Light H^± Discovery Channels at the LHC. Symmetry, 13(12), 2319. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319

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