ATLAS discovery potential for a heavy charged Higgs boson

The sensitivity of the ATLAS detector to the discovery of a heavy charged Higgs boson is presented. Assuming a heavy SUSY spectrum, the most promising channels above the top quark mass are H± → tb and H± → τ±ντ which provide coverage in the low and high tanβ regions up to ∼ 600 GeV. The achievable precisions on the charged Higgs mass and tanβ determination are also discussed. The H± → W±h0 channel, though restricted to a small MSSM parameter space, shows a viable signal in NMSSM where the parameter space is less constrained. The observation of the channel H− → τ−L ντ + c.c. may constitute a distinctive evidence for models with singlet neutrinos in large extra dimensions.