A light charged Higgs boson in two-Higgs doublet model for CDF $Wjj$ anomaly

Abstract

Motivated by recent anomalous CDF data on $Wjj$ events, we study a possible explanation within the framework of the two-Higgs doublet model. We find that a charged Higgs boson of mass $\sim$ 140 GeV with appropriate couplings can account for the observed excess. In addition, we consider the flavor-changing neutral current effects induced at loop level by the charged Higgs boson on the $B$ meson system to further constrain the model. Our study shows that the like-sign charge asymmetry $A_{s\ell }^b$ can be of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})$ in this scenario.

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected and new references added