@article{ddec24b88ddc49e2938e6a977e3ed8dd,
title = "Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson and a CP-Odd Higgs Boson in Final States with eμμ or μμμ in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV",
abstract = "A search for a light charged Higgs boson (H\textasciicircum{}\{+\}) decaying to a W boson and a CP-odd Higgs boson (A) in final states with eμμ or μμμ is performed using data from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb\textasciicircum{}\{-1\}. In this search, it is assumed that the H\textasciicircum{}\{+\} boson is produced in decays of top quarks, and the A boson decays to two oppositely charged muons. The presence of signals for H\textasciicircum{}\{+\} boson masses between 100 and 160 GeV and A boson masses between 15 and 75 GeV is investigated. No evidence for the production of the H\textasciicircum{}\{+\} boson is found. Upper limits at 95\% confidence level are obtained on the combined branching fraction for the decay chain, t→bH\textasciicircum{}\{+\}→bW\textasciicircum{}\{+\}A→bW\textasciicircum{}\{+\}μ\textasciicircum{}\{+\}μ\textasciicircum{}\{-\}, of 1.9×10\textasciicircum{}\{-6\} to 8.6×10\textasciicircum{}\{-6\}, depending on the masses of the H\textasciicircum{}\{+\} and A bosons. These are the first limits for these decay modes of the H\textasciicircum{}\{+\} and A bosons.",
author = "\{(CMS Collaboration)\} and Sirunyan, \{A. M.\} and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and F. Ambrogi and T. Bergauer and J. Brandstetter and M. Dragicevic and J. Er{\"o} and \{Escalante Del Valle\}, A. and M. Flechl and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and M. Jeitler and N. Krammer and I. Kr{\"a}tschmer and D. Liko and T. Madlener and I. Mikulec and N. Rad and J. Schieck and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and M. Spanring and D. Spitzbart and W. Waltenberger and J. Wittmann and Wulz, \{C. E.\} and M. Zarucki and V. Drugakov and V. Mossolov and \{Suarez Gonzalez\}, J. and Darwish, \{M. R.\} and \{De Wolf\}, \{E. A.\} and \{Di Croce\}, D. and X. Janssen and J. Lauwers and A. Lelek and M. Pieters and \{Van Haevermaet\}, H. and \{Van Mechelen\}, P. and \{Van Putte\}, S. and \{Van Remortel\}, N. and F. Blekman and Bols, \{E. S.\} and Chhibra, \{S. S.\} and J. D'Hondt and \{De Clercq\}, J. and G. Flouris and D. Lontkovskyi and Chatterjee, \{R. M.\} and Y. Kubota and J. Mans",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 CERN.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.131802",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "123",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "13",
}