Combination of Searches for Singly and Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons Produced Via Vector-Boson Fusion in Proton-Proton Collisions at √<i>s</I>=13 Tev With the Atlas Detector

Abstract

A combination of searches for singly and doubly charged Higgs bosons, H-+/- and H-+/-+/-, produced via vector-boson fusion is performed using 140 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. Searches targeting decays to massive vector bosons in leptonic final states (electrons or muons) are considered. New constraints are reported on the production crosssection times branching fraction for charged Higgs boson masses between 200 GeV and 3000 GeV. The results are interpreted in the context of the Georgi-Machacek model for which the most stringent constraints to date are set for the masses considered in the combination.