Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}$

A search for charged Higgs bosons produced in vector boson fusion processes and decaying into vector bosons using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}$ at the LHC is reported. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $137~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ collected with the CMS detector. Events are selected by requiring two or three electrons or muons, moderate missing transverse momentum, and two jets with a large rapidity separation and a large dijet mass. No excess of events with respect to the standard model background predictions is observed. Constraints are reported on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for vector boson fusion production of charged Higgs bosons as a function of mass, from 200 to 3000 GeV. The results are interpreted in the context of the Georgi-Machacek model.