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Low-mass doubly-charged Higgs bosons at LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-23 v1

Abstract

Search for light (within the mass range 84-200 GeV) doubly-charged Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of W-bosons has been deemed challenging using the conventional LHC searches with leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum in the final state. Such Higgses together with slightly heavier singly-charged and neutral Higgses, when arranged in an SU(2)LSU(2)_L triplet as in the type-II see-saw model, are lately shown to accommodate the recent measurement of the WW-boson mass by the CDF collaboration. These, when produced in a highly Lorentz-boosted regime, tend to manifest themselves as a single fat-jet or a pair of adjacent same-sign leptons plus missing transverse momentum. First, we perform a multivariate analysis to discern such exotic jets from the SM jets. Then, we present a novel search in the final state with an exotic jet and two same-sign leptons plus missing transverse momentum. We find that such low-mass doubly-charged Higgsses could be directly probed with the already collected Run 2 LHC data.

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@article{arxiv.2211.00632,
  title  = {Low-mass doubly-charged Higgs bosons at LHC},
  author = {Saiyad Ashanujjaman and Kirtiman Ghosh and Rameswar Sahu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00632},
  year   = {2026}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures