ATLAS
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BEYOND SM
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the decay channel H+csˉH^+ \to c\bar{s} in ttˉt\bar{t} events using pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for a charged Higgs boson (H+H^+) in ttˉt\bar{t} decays is presented, where one of the top quarks decays via tH+bt \to H^+b, followed by H+H^+ \to two jets (csˉc\bar{s}). The other top quark decays to Wb, where the W boson then decays into a lepton (e/μe/\mu) and a neutrino. The data were recorded in pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 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 H+H^+ masses between 90 GeV and 150 GeV, assuming B(H+csˉ)B(H^+ \to c\bar{s})=100%.

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