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# Pair production of charged Higgs bosonsin association with bottom quark pairs at the Large Hadron Collider

(Impact Factor: 5.08). 02/2004; 33(1):41-52. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01529-1
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We study the process
gg® b[`(b)] H+ H-gg\to b\bar b H^ + H^-
at large
tanb\tan\beta
, where it represents the dominant production mode of charged Higgs boson pairs in a Type II 2-Higgs doublet model, including the minimal supersymmetric standard model. The ability to select this signal would in principle enable the measurements of some triple-Higgs couplings, which in turn would help understanding the structure of the extended Higgs sector. We outline a selection procedure that should aid in disentangling the Higgs signal from the main irreducible background. This exploits a signature made up by t\tau
-lepton and missing energytanb >~30\tan\beta\gtrsim30
and over a significant
MH±M_{H^\pm}
range above the top mass, a small signal emerges already at the Large Hadron Collider after 100 fb-1, ten times as much luminosity would be needed to perform accurate measurements of Higgs parameters in the above final state, rendering this channel a primary candidate to benefit from the so-called Super Large Hadron Collider option, for which a tenfold increase in instantaneous luminosity is currently being considered.

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