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Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at s√= 13 TeV

A search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector bosons, using proton-proton collisions at s√= 13 TeV at the LHC, is reported. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 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 GeV. The results are interpreted in the context of the Georgi-Machacek model.

High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Radiation-hard detectors ; Si microstrip and pad detectors ; Radiation damage to detector materials (solid state) ; Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors) ; radiation: damage ; CMS: upgrade ; tracking detector ; semiconductor detector: design ; semiconductor detector: microstrip ; performance ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Top physics ; p p: scattering ; p p: colliding beams ; top: single production

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