Charged Higgs production at the LHC and CP asymmetries

Abstract

We study CP violation in associated production of a charged Higgs boson and a top quark at the LHC, $pp \to tH^\pm +X$. The asymmetry between the total cross sections for $H^+$ and $H^-$ production at next-to-leading order in the MSSM is calculated analytically and a detailed numerical analysis is performed. Furthermore, subsequent decays of $H^\pm$ to $tb$ and $ τ^\pm ν_τ$ are considered. In the case with $H^\pm \to tb$ decay the asymmetry can go up to $\sim$~12%.

A contributed talk given by E. Ginina at the 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions, SUSY09, June 2009, Boston, US, to appear in the proceedings of the conference