Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector boson pairs in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13\,{\text {TeV}}

• Main Authors: Sirunyan, Albert M, Chekhovsky, Vladimir, Lowette, Steven, Tytgat, Michael, Mota Amarilo, Kevin, De Moraes Gregores, Eduardo, Liu, Zhenan, Wang, Jin, Zhao, Jingzhou, Mahmoud, Mohammed, Rosowsky, André, Salerno, Roberto, Agram, Jean-Laurent, Camen, Camille, Meuser, Danilo, Behnke, Olaf, Cheng, Chun, Kramer, Tobias, Gottmann, Artur, Keicher, Philip, Loukas, Demetrios, Saoulidou, Niki, Gadallah, Mahmod Moussa Abdelkhalek, Bencze, Gyorgy, Kar, Chandiprasad, Kaur, Manjit, Naimuddin, Md, Sikdar, Anup Kumar, Banerjee, Sudeshna, Khakzad, Mohsen, Lenzi, Piergiulio, Govoni, Pietro, Tabarelli de Fatis, Tommaso, Sciacca, Crisostomo, Bisello, Dario, Montagna, Paolo, Santocchia, Attilio, Tedeschi, Tommaso, Bagliesi, Giuseppe, Ciocci, Maria Agnese, Parolia, Shubhi, Santanastasio, Francesco, Pinna Angioni, Gian Luca, Ruspa, Marta, Casarsa, Massimo, Kang, Y., Mondragon Herrera, Cesar Atzin, Grzanka, Leszek, Shulha, Siarhei, Gninenko, Sergei, Nikitenko, Alexander, Azhgirey, Igor, Navarro Tobar, Álvaro, Reyes-Almanza, Rogelio, Barney, David, Florent, Alice, Mannelli, Marcello, Kaestli, Hans-Christian, Calandri, Alessandro, Manzoni, Riccardo Andrea, Heikkilä, Jaana Kristiina, Yu, Shin-Shan, Kiminsu, Ugur, Zorbakir, Ibrahim Soner, Bologna, Simone, Seif El Nasr-Storey, Sarah, Shepherd-Themistocleous, Claire, Webb, Samuel Nathan, Sawant, Siddhesh, Suarez, Indara, Mulhearn, Michael, Taylor, Devin, Zhang, Fengwangdong, Cittolin, Sergio, Krutelyov, Vyacheslav, Kim, Jaebak, Andrews, Michael Benjamin, Taylor, Lucas, Tkaczyk, Slawek, Koenig, Evan, Hagopian, Vasken, Schiber, Catherine, Nachtman, Jane, Vámi, Tamás Álmos, Nickel, M., Tapia Takaki, Daniel, Goncharov, Maxim, Rankin, Dylan, Finco, Linda, McLean, Christine, Marzocchi, Badder, Goldouzian, Reza, Mei, Kelvin, Ojalvo, Isabel, Peng, Cheng-Chieh, Stahl Leiton, Andre Govinda, Taus, Rhys, Overton, David, Melo, Andrew, Sharma, Varun
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Subjects: background; CERN LHC Coll; channel cross section: branching ratio: upper limit; CMS; dijet: mass; dijet: mass spectrum; electron; experimental results; GeV-cms; Higgs particle: charged particle; Higgs particle: decay modes; mass dependence; muon; p p: colliding beams; p p: scattering; rapidity: difference; transverse momentum: missing-energy; vector boson: fusion; vector boson: pair production
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2021-03530

A search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector bosons, using proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\,{\text {TeV}} $ at the LHC, is reported. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137$\,{\text {fb}}^{-1}$ collected with the CMS detector. Events are selected by requiring two or three electrons or muons, moderate missing transverse momentum, and two jets with a large rapidity separation and a large dijet mass. No excess of events with respect to the standard model background predictions is observed. Model independent upper limits at 95% confidence level are reported on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for vector boson fusion production of charged Higgs bosons as a function of mass, from 200 to 3000$\,{\text {GeV}}$. The results are interpreted in the context of the Georgi–Machacek model.