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Low-mass fermiophobic charged Higgs phenomenology in two-Higgs-doublet models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

After the recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson, the possibility of an enlarged scalar sector arises as a natural question. Experimental searches for charged scalars have been already performed with negative results. We analyze the phenomenology associated with a fermiophobic charged Higgs (it does not couple to fermions at tree level), in two-Higgs-doublet models. All present experimental bounds are evaded trivially in this case, and one needs to consider other decay and production channels. We study the associated production of a charged Higgs with either a WW or a neutral scalar boson, and the relevant decays for a light fermiophobic charged Higgs. The interesting features of this scenario should result encouraging for the LHC collaborations to perform searches for such a particle.

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@article{arxiv.1405.6639,
  title  = {Low-mass fermiophobic charged Higgs phenomenology in two-Higgs-doublet models},
  author = {Victor Ilisie and Antonio Pich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6639},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

40 pages, 11 figures. Minor typos corrected