Optimising charged Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider across bb⁻W± final states

Abstract

In the light of the most recent data from Higgs boson searches and analyses, we re-assess the scope of the Large Hadron Collider in accessing heavy charged Higgs boson signals in b¯bW±final states, wherein the contributing channels can be H+→t¯ b, hW±, HW±and AW±. We consider a 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-II and we assume as production mode bg→tH−+c.c., the dominant one over the range MH±≥480GeV, as dictated by b →sγconstraints. Prospects of detection are found to be significant for various Run2 energy and luminosity options.