Author:
Coleppa Baradhwaj,Krishna Gokul B.,Sarkar Agnivo
Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, we explore the collider phenomenology of charged Higgs bosons in the context of a generic Beyond Standard Model scenario with extended gauge and scalar sectors. In such scenarios, the charged Higgs boson can decay via the $$W^{'}Z/ WZ^{'}$$
W
′
Z
/
W
Z
′
channels. We formulate a search strategy for the $$H^{\pm }$$
H
±
in the channel $$\sigma (g b \rightarrow H^{\pm }t){\mathcal{B}\mathcal{R}}(H^{\pm } \rightarrow W' Z)$$
σ
(
g
b
→
H
±
t
)
B
R
(
H
±
→
W
′
Z
)
considering the interesting cascade decay chain $$H^{\pm } \rightarrow W^{'} Z \rightarrow W^{\pm } Z Z$$
H
±
→
W
′
Z
→
W
±
Z
Z
. We find that the charged Higgs can be discovered in final states with multiple hard leptons and/or b-quarks which future LHC experiments with sufficiently large luminosity ($${\mathcal {L}} = 1000~\text {fb}^{-1}$$
L
=
1000
fb
-
1
and above) can probe. We then study the phenomenological implications of our findings in the context of a generic toy model with a $$H^{\pm }$$
H
±
as well as in a more realistic electroweak symmetry breaking scenario.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous),Engineering (miscellaneous)