{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,12]],"date-time":"2025-10-12T02:36:24Z","timestamp":1760236584276,"version":"build-2065373602"},"reference-count":9,"publisher":"MDPI AG","issue":"12","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,4]],"date-time":"2021-12-04T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1638576000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Symmetry"],"abstract":"<jats:p>A light charged Higgs boson has been searched for at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via top (anti)quark decay, i.e., t\u2192bH+, if kinematically allowed. In this contribution, we propose new channels for light charged Higgs boson searches via the pair productions pp\u2192H\u00b1h\/A and pp\u2192H+H\u2212 at the LHC in the context of the Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I. By focusing on a case where the heavy H state is the Standard Model (SM)-like one already observed, we investigate the production of the aforementioned charged Higgs bosons and their bosonic decay channels, namely, H\u00b1\u2192W\u00b1h and\/or H\u00b1\u2192W\u00b1A. We demonstrate that such production and decay channels can yield substantial alternative discovery channels for H\u00b1 bosons at the LHC. Finally, we propose eight benchmark points (BPs) to motivate the search for such signatures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13122319","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T02:48:13Z","timestamp":1638845293000},"page":"2319","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["New Light H\u00b1 Discovery Channels at the LHC"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Abdesslam","family":"Arhrib","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tanger 90000, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Rachid","family":"Benbrik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Physique Fondamentale et Appliqu\u00e9e Safi, Facult\u00e9 Polydisciplinaire de Safi, Safi 46000, Morocco"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2366-0493","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Krab","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Polydisciplinary Faculty, Research Team in Theoretical Physics and Materials (RTTPM), Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal 23000, Morocco"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5023-8664","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bouzid","family":"Manaut","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Polydisciplinary Faculty, Research Team in Theoretical Physics and Materials (RTTPM), Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal 23000, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Stefano","family":"Moretti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6696-5129","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China"}]},{"given":"Qi-Shu","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Future High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"School of Physics Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.physletb.2012.08.020","article-title":"Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC","volume":"716","author":"Aad","year":"2012","journal-title":"Phys. Lett. B"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"30","DOI":"10.1016\/j.physletb.2012.08.021","article-title":"Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC","volume":"716","author":"Chatrchyan","year":"2012","journal-title":"Phys. Lett. B"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1088\/1126-6708\/2002\/01\/001","article-title":"Improving the discovery potential of charged Higgs bosons at Tevatron run II","volume":"1","author":"Guchait","year":"2002","journal-title":"JHEP"},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.physrep.2012.02.002","article-title":"Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models","volume":"516","author":"Branco","year":"2012","journal-title":"Phys. Rept."},{"key":"ref_5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cpc.2009.09.011","article-title":"2HDMC: Two-Higgs-doublet model calculator physics and manual","volume":"181","author":"Eriksson","year":"2010","journal-title":"Comput. Phys. Commun."},{"key":"ref_6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1211","DOI":"10.1140\/epjc\/s10052-020-08557-9","article-title":"HiggsBounds-5: Testing Higgs sectors in the LHC 13 TeV era","volume":"80","author":"Bechtle","year":"2020","journal-title":"Eur. Phys. J. C"},{"key":"ref_7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"145","DOI":"10.1140\/epjc\/s10052-021-08942-y","article-title":"HiggsSignals-2: Probing new physics with precision Higgs measurements in the LHC 13 TeV era","volume":"81","author":"Bechtle","year":"2021","journal-title":"Eur. Phys. J. C"},{"key":"ref_8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1579","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cpc.2009.02.017","article-title":"SuperIso v2.3: A Program for calculating flavor physics observables in Supersymmetry","volume":"180","author":"Mahmoudi","year":"2009","journal-title":"Comput. Phys. Commun."},{"key":"ref_9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"73","DOI":"10.1007\/JHEP10(2021)073","article-title":"New discovery modes for a light charged Higgs boson at the LHC","volume":"10","author":"Arhrib","year":"2021","journal-title":"JHEP"}],"container-title":["Symmetry"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-8994\/13\/12\/2319\/pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,11]],"date-time":"2025-10-11T07:39:41Z","timestamp":1760168381000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-8994\/13\/12\/2319"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,4]]},"references-count":9,"journal-issue":{"issue":"12","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12]]}},"alternative-id":["sym13122319"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/sym13122319","relation":{},"ISSN":["2073-8994"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"2073-8994"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,4]]}}}