ATLAS
PUBLISHED
BEYOND SM
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the decay channel in events using pp collisions at = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for a charged Higgs boson () in decays is presented, where one of the top quarks decays via , followed by two jets (). The other top quark decays to Wb, where the W boson then decays into a lepton () and a neutrino. The data were recorded in pp collisions at = 7 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1. With no observation of a signal, 95% confidence level (CL) upper limits are set on the decay branching ratio of top quarks to charged Higgs bosons varying between 5% and 1% for masses between 90 GeV and 150 GeV, assuming =100%.