Possible impact of the fourth generation quarks on production of a charged Higgs boson at the LHC

Abstract

We investigate the impact of the fourth generation quarks on production and decays of the charged Higgs boson at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with triple $b$-tagging. The signal is the process $gg\to \overline{u_4}{u}_4$, followed by $\overline{u_4}\to W^{-}\bar{b}$ and $u_4\to h^{+}b$ decays with subsequent $h^{+}\to t\bar{b}$ and corresponding hermitic conjugates. It is shown that, if $m_{u_4}=400$ GeV, considered process will provide unique opportunity to discover charged Higgs boson with mass range of 200 to 350 GeV at the first years of the LHC run.

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables