Search for a light charged Higgs boson in $t \rightarrow H^{\pm}b$ decays, with $H^{\pm} \rightarrow cb$, in the lepton+jets final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration
JHEP 09 (2023) 004, 2023.

Abstract (data abstract)
A search for a charged Higgs boson, $H^{\pm}$, produced in top-quark decays, $t\rightarrow H^{\pm}b$, is presented. The search targets $H^{\pm}$ decays into a bottom and a charm quark, $H^{\pm} \rightarrow cb$. The analysis focuses on a selection enriched in top-quark pair production, where one top quark decays into a leptonically decaying $W$ boson and a bottom quark, and the other top quark decays into a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark. This topology leads to a lepton-plus-jets final state, characterised by an isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The search exploits the high multiplicity of jets containing $b$-hadrons, and deploys a neural network classifier that uses the kinematic differences between the signal and the background. The search uses a dataset of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV between 2015 and 2018 with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, amounting to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$. Observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits between 0.15% (0.09%) and 0.42% (0.25%) are derived for the product of branching fractions $\mathscr{B}(t\rightarrow H^{\pm}b) \times \mathscr{B}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow cb)$ for charged Higgs boson masses between 60 and 160 GeV, assuming the SM production of the top-quark pairs.

  • 95% CL upper limits on $\mathscr{B}$

    Tabulated data from Figure 8 in the publication

    10.17182/hepdata.135457.v1/t1

    The observed 95% CL upper limits on $\mathscr{B}=\mathscr{B}(t\rightarrow H^{\pm}b) \times \mathscr{B}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow cb)$ as a function of $m_{H^{\pm}}$ and the expectation...

  • Pre-fit event yields

    Auxiliary Table 1 from the publication

    10.17182/hepdata.135457.v1/t2

    Pre-fit event yields in each of the nine analysis regions. The $H^{\pm}$ signal yields for $m_{H^{\pm}}=130$ GeV and $m_{H^{\pm}}=70$ GeV...

  • Post-fit event yields

    Auxiliary Table 2 from the publication

    10.17182/hepdata.135457.v1/t3

    Post-fit yields in each of the nine analysis regions considered. The total prediction is shown after the fit to data...

  • Acceptance

    Tabulated data from Auxiliary Figure 12 in the publication

    10.17182/hepdata.135457.v1/t4

    Signal selection efficiency ($\epsilon$) times acceptance ($A$) as a function of $H^{\pm}$. The estimated $\epsilon\times A$ arises from the lepton...

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