CMS public results for Higgs boson

[Safinaz]

Hi all,

I read one of the CMS results for new charged Higgs on :
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/Hig14020TWiki

I can't understand this sentence at the main results:

An expected 95 % CL model-independent upper limit on B(t->bH+) x B(H+ -> tau nu) in the range of 1.1-0.22 % is obtained for m_H+ = 80-160 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/GeV while for m_H+ = 180-600 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/GeV a model-independent limit on sigma(pp -> H+- tb) is set to 0.41-0.030 pb. The corresponding observed 95 % CL model-independent upper limit is set to 1.2-0.16 % for m_H+ = 80-160 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/GeV and to 0.38-0.026 pb for m_H+ = 180-600 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/GeV . The results are interpreted in different MSSM benchmark scenarios and are used to set exclusion limits in the m_H+ - tan(beta) and m_A - tan(beta) parameter spaces.

What does it mean? is that constrains the theoretical calculations of sigma(pp -> H+- tb) to be 0.41-0.030 pb,
what about the last sentence which mentions "0.38-0.026 pb" ?

Bests,
S.

 

[mfb]

The ranges correspond to the mass ranges, different masses have different exclusion limits.

 

[Safinaz]

Thanx, I got it.