%0 Journal Article %T Search for a light charged Higgs boson in t → H±b decays, with H± → cb, in the lepton plus jets final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Amos, K. R. %A Aparisi Pozo, J. A. %A Bailey, A. J. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Cantero, J. %A Cardillo, F. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Didenko %A Escobar, C. %A Estrada Pastor, O. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fullana Torregrosa, E. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. %A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lozano Bahilo, J. J. %A Mamuzic, J. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Martinez Agullo, P. %A Miralles Lopez, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Monsonis Romero, L. %A Moreno Llacer, M. %A Navarro-Gonzalez, J. %A Poveda, J. %A Prades Ibañez, A. %A Ruiz-Martinez, A. %A Sabatini, P. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Sebastian, V. %A Sayago Galvan, I. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %J Journal of High Energy Physics %D 2023 %V 09 %N 9 %I Springer %@ 1029-8479 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023 %O WOS:001062397100001 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5730), last updated on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:04:52 +0000 %X A search for a charged Higgs boson, H-+/-, produced in top-quark decays, t -> H(+/-)b, is presented. The search targets H-+/- decays into a bottom and a charm quark, H-+/- -> cb. The analysis focuses on a selection enriched in top-quark pair production, where one top quark decays into a leptonically decaying W boson and a bottom quark, and the other top quark decays into a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark. This topology leads to a lepton-plus-jets final state, characterised by an isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The search exploits the high multiplicity of jets containing b-hadrons, and deploys a neural network classifier that uses the kinematic differences between the signal and the background. The search uses a dataset of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 13TeV between 2015 and 2018 with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, amounting to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). Observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits between 0.15% (0.09%) and 0.42% (0.25%) are derived for the product of branching fractions B( t -> H-+/- b) x B( H +/- -> cb) for charged Higgs boson masses between 60 and 160 GeV, assuming the SM production of the top-quark pairs. %K Hadron-Hadron Scattering %R 10.1007/JHEP09(2023)004 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11739 %U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)004 %P 004-52pp