Indications for New Higgs Bosons
Abstract
After the Higgs discovery, the question of whether particles beyond those of the Standard Model exist is more pressing than ever. In this context, the scalar sector is particularly promising, since it lies at the core of the internal problems of the Standard Model, while extensions of it allow us to resolve them and can provide explanations for Dark matter, non-zero neutrino masses, inflation etc. In these proceedings, we review the indications for new Higgs bosons at the electroweak scale with masses of 95 GeV and 152 GeV. These excesses are most significant in the di-photon channel but are supported by weaker-than-expected limits in other decay modes. While for the 95 GeV candidate the production mechanism is mostly unknown, the (hypothetical) 152 GeV Higgs is dominantly produced in association with leptons, jets and missing energy, pointing towards the Drell-Yan production of an triplet with . Interestingly, this model predicts with , which resembles the signature of production in the Standard Model and is in fact preferred by current data. Finally, we investigate the possibility that the significant tensions between the Standard Model predictions and the measurements in differential top-quark distributions are due to contamination from new physics involving both the 152 GeV and the 95 GeV scalar.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.04233,
title = {Indications for New Higgs Bosons},
author = {Andreas Crivellin and Saiyad Ashanujjaman and Sumit Banik and Siddharth P. Maharathy and Guglielmo Coloretti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04233},
year = {2026}
}
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Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2025 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2025)