DOI 10.1007/s100520000310
Yukawa corrections to the charged Higgs boson production in association with the top quark at hadron colliders
L.G. Jin1 - C.S. Li1 - R.J. Oakes2 - S.H. Zhu3,4
1 Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871,
P.R. China
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL 60208-3112, USA
3 CCAST (World
Laboratory), Beijing 100080, P.R. China
4 Institute of Theoretical
Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
Received: 12 October 1999
/ Revised version: 3 December 1999
/
Published online: 6 April 2000
- © Springer-Verlag 2000
Abstract
We calculate the Yukawa corrections of order
to charged Higgs boson
production in association with a top quark at the Tevatron and
the
LHC. The corrections are not very sensitive to the mass of the
charged Higgs boson and can exceed 
for low values of
,
where the contribution of the top quark is large,
and
high values of
where the contribution of the bottom
quark becomes large. These Yukawa corrections could be significant
for charged Higgs boson searches based on this
production process, particularly at the LHC where the cross
section is relatively large.
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