After the extraordinary discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the next goal is to pin down its underlying dynamics by measuring the Higgs self-couplings, along with its couplings to gauge and matter particles. As a prototype model of new physics in the scalar sector, we consider the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) with CP-conservation, and evaluate the prospects for measuring the trilinear scalar couplings among the CP-even Higgs bosons h and H (λhhh, λhhH, λhHH) at LHC14. The continuum and resonant production of CP-even Higgs boson pairs, hh and hH, offer complementary probes of the scalar potential away from the light-Higgs decoupling limit. We identify the viable search channels at LHC14 and estimate their expected discovery sensitivities.
@article{arxiv.1408.2525,
title = {Measuring the 2HDM Scalar Potential at LHC14},
author = {Vernon Barger and Lisa L. Everett and Chris B. Jackson and Andrea D. Peterson and Gabe Shaughnessy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2525},
year = {2014}
}