Single Top Events as a Source of Light Charged Higgs in the Fully Hadronic Final State at LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential of single top events at the LHC as a source for detecting light charged Higgs bosons within the MSSM framework, focusing on hadronic tau decays and parameter space analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a method to analyze light charged Higgs signals from single top events, including parameter scans and potential exclusion or discovery at the LHC.

Findings

Potential to exclude large parameter space regions.

Possibility of 5 sigma discovery with sufficient data.

Provides exclusion and discovery contours for various luminosities.

Abstract

The single top production proceeds through different channels at LHC. The t-channel production which has a cross section at the level of one third of the ttbar, can be regarded as a source of light charged Higgs boson through top quark decay to charged Higgs. Due to the low jet multiplicity and characteristic kinematic features of this process, a signal selection can be designed to extract charged Higgs signal from the background processes. In this paper, taking MSSM as the theoretical framework, The light charged Higgs signal from single top events is analyzed. The charged Higgs is assumed to decay to tau nu and the hadronic decay of tau leptons is analyzed. Different charged Higgs mass hypotheses are analyzed and a scan over the parameter space (mH+,tanbeta) is performed. It is shown that this process has the potential to exclude large areas of parameter space, while with enough data, a 5 sigma discovery would also be possible. Finally 95% C.L. exclusion and 5 sigma contours are provided for different integrated luminosities of LHC.