H^\pm W^\mp production in the MSSM at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential to detect charged Higgs bosons produced alongside W bosons at the LHC within the MSSM, focusing on leptonic and hadronic decay channels and analyzing background suppression techniques.

Contribution

It presents a detailed parton level analysis demonstrating the feasibility of observing H^ W^ production in the MSSM at the LHC, especially for large tan beta and intermediate H^ masses.

Findings

Viable signal detection for large tan beta

Effective background control via cuts

Potential observation for H^ masses near top quark mass

Abstract

We investigate the viability of observing charged Higgs bosons (H^\pm) produced in association with W bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, using the leptonic decay H^+ -> tau^+ nu_tau and hadronic W decay, within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Performing a parton level study we show how the irreducible Standard Model background from W + 2 jets can be controlled by applying appropriate cuts. In the standard m_h^max scenario we find a viable signal for large tan beta and intermediate H^\pm masses (~ m_t).