Charged Higgs boson searches at past, present and future colliders

by Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University)

Thursday 13 Jan 2011, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

Charged Higgs bosons are predicted by various theories beyond the Standard Model, where the Higgs sector consists of more than only one doublet of scalar fields. Direct experimental searches for charged Higgs bosons at LEP and at the Tevatron have already excluded a certain range of parameters. Search strategies for charged Higgs bosons in the ATLAS experiment will be presented, in particular for the early data-taking period with a 7 TeV LHC centre-of-mass energy, but also for heavy charged Higgs bosons with a 14 TeV LHC operation. Prospects for charged Higgs boson discovery, or for an accurate measurement of its properties, at future e+e- linear colliders such as CLIC will also be discussed.