The Hadronic Tau Decay Signature of a Heavy Charged Higgs Boson at LHC

Abstract

The hadronic tau decay channel offers by far the best signature for heavy charged Higgs boson search at the LHC in the large $\tan\beta$ region. By exploiting the distinct polarization of the tau and its large transverse mass, along with the accompanying missing--$p_T$, one can probe for a charged Higgs boson up to a mass of about 600 GeV in an essentially background-free environment. The transverse mass distribution of the tau jet also provides a fairly unambiguous estimate of the charged Higgs boson mass.Comment: 11 pages, latex, including 3 figure