Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into same-sign W boson pairs with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6500-y

Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into same-sign W boson pairs with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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Abstract

A search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into W boson pairs is presented. It uses a data sample from proton–proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb^{- 1} collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. This search is guided by a model that includes an extension of the Higgs sector through a scalar triplet, leading to a rich phenomenology that includes doubly charged scalar bosons H^{± ±}. Those bosons are produced in pairs in proton–proton collisions and decay predominantly into electroweak gauge bosons H^{± ±}→ W^±W^±. Experimental signatures with several leptons, missing transverse energy and jets are explored. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are found. The parameter space of the benchmark model is excluded at 95% confidence level for H^{± ±} bosons with masses between 200 and 220 GeV.

Original language	English
Article number	58
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	79
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6500-y
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
BSF-NSF
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
CEA-DRF
Wal-lenberg Foundation
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Leverhulme Trust
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Generalitat de Catalunya
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
Austrian Science Fund
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
MSMT
MSSR
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Czech Republic
Singapore Eye Research Institute
MIZŠ
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
MESTD
U.S. Department of Energy
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
EU-ESF
RGC
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
MES of Russia
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institutul de Fizică Atomică
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
VSC CR
Glycemic Index Foundation
MNE
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Royal Society
European Research Council
European Regional Development Fund
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
IRFU
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
National Research Council Canada
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Horizon 2020, and Marie Skℓodowska-Curie Actions
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/P002439/1, ST/K001310/1, ST/N000447/1, ST/N000234/1, ST/N000331/1, ST/H001158/2, GRIDPP, ST/N000420/1
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS

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