Electroweak production of multiple (pseudo)scalars in the 2HDM
Electroweak production of multiple (pseudo)scalars in the 2HDM
The two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) is the most minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) containing extra Higgs doublet fields. Given the multiplicity of Higgs states in a 2HDM, its Higgs potential is significantly more involved than the SM one. Importantly, it contains a multitude of Higgs triple self-couplings, unlike the SM, which only has one. These interactions are key to understanding the phenomenology of the 2HDM, as they uniquely determine the form of the potential. Several studies analysing the prospects of measuring these couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found them to be quite low generally. However, such studies have largely concentrated on Higgs pair-production induced by gluon-gluon scattering, either via direct annihilation or followed by their splitting into b-(anti)quark pairs, which in turn annihilate leaving behind spectator b-(anti)quarks. Both of these channels are therefore governed by QCD dynamics. We compare here the yields of such channels to those initiated by (primarily) valence quarks, which involve Electro-Weak (EW) interactions only, for neutral multi-Higgs final states. We find that EW production can be dominant over QCD production for certain final state combinations. We also illustrate that charged final states, which can only be produced via EW modes, could serve as important probes of some H± triple couplings, that are inaccessible in QCD-induced processes, during Run 2 and 3 of the LHC. Our analysis covers regions of the parameter space of the Type-I 2HDM that have escaped the most up-to-date experimental constraints coming from EW precision data, LHC measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson properties, searches for additional Higgs states, and flavour physics.
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Enberg, Rikard
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Klemm, William
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Moretti, Stefano
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Munir, Shoaib
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June 2019
Enberg, Rikard
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Klemm, William
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Moretti, Stefano
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Munir, Shoaib
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Enberg, Rikard, Klemm, William, Moretti, Stefano and Munir, Shoaib
(2019)
Electroweak production of multiple (pseudo)scalars in the 2HDM.
European Physical Journal C, 79 (6), , [512].
(doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7025-8).
Abstract
The two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) is the most minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) containing extra Higgs doublet fields. Given the multiplicity of Higgs states in a 2HDM, its Higgs potential is significantly more involved than the SM one. Importantly, it contains a multitude of Higgs triple self-couplings, unlike the SM, which only has one. These interactions are key to understanding the phenomenology of the 2HDM, as they uniquely determine the form of the potential. Several studies analysing the prospects of measuring these couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found them to be quite low generally. However, such studies have largely concentrated on Higgs pair-production induced by gluon-gluon scattering, either via direct annihilation or followed by their splitting into b-(anti)quark pairs, which in turn annihilate leaving behind spectator b-(anti)quarks. Both of these channels are therefore governed by QCD dynamics. We compare here the yields of such channels to those initiated by (primarily) valence quarks, which involve Electro-Weak (EW) interactions only, for neutral multi-Higgs final states. We find that EW production can be dominant over QCD production for certain final state combinations. We also illustrate that charged final states, which can only be produced via EW modes, could serve as important probes of some H± triple couplings, that are inaccessible in QCD-induced processes, during Run 2 and 3 of the LHC. Our analysis covers regions of the parameter space of the Type-I 2HDM that have escaped the most up-to-date experimental constraints coming from EW precision data, LHC measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson properties, searches for additional Higgs states, and flavour physics.
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Accepted/In Press date: 31 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 June 2019
Published date: June 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/432093
ISSN: 1434-6044
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