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New Higgses at the Electroweak Scale and Differential $t\bar t$ Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-05-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Indications for new Higgs bosons at 95\,GeV and 152\,GeV with significance of 3.8σ\sigma and 4.3σ4.3\sigma, respectively, have been obtained. While the former contains the inclusive γγ\gamma\gamma channel, the latter is obtained by combining several modes of associated di-photon production, i.e. γγ+X\gamma\gamma+X with X=,b,MET,τ,...X=\ell,\,\ell b,\,{\rm MET},\,\tau,\,..., within the Δ\DeltaSM (the Standard Model extended by a real triplet). Such a triplet predicts a positive definite shift in the WW mass, in agreement with the current global electroweak fit, and its neutral component decays dominantly to WW bosons (for small mixing angles). This offers a connection to ttˉt\bar t differential distributions whose experimental signature is WWbbˉWW b\bar b: A simplified model with a new scalar HH, produced via gluon fusion and decaying to SS and SS^\prime with subsequent (dominant) decays to WWWW and bbˉb\bar b, respectively, has the same final state. In fact, adding this new physics polution to the Standard Model describes the leptonic ttˉt\bar t distributions better by at least 5.8σ5.8\sigma. Furthermore, assuming that SS^\prime is an SU(2)LSU(2)_L singlet, the resulting di-photon signal strength is compatible with the 95\,GeV γγ\gamma\gamma measurements. A possible UV completion of this simplified model is the Δ\Delta2HDMS, i.e. a 2HDM supplemented with a singlet and a real triplet, which can successfully accommodate electroweak scale Baryogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.2405.15933,
  title  = {New Higgses at the Electroweak Scale and Differential $t\bar t$ Distributions},
  author = {Andreas Crivellin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15933},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Contribution to the 2024 Electroweak and QCD sessions of the 58th Rencontres de Moriond