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Radion-Higgs Mixing in 2HDMs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-09-26 v2

Abstract

We study the custodial Randall-Sundrum model with two Higgs doublets localized in the \TeV\TeV brane. The scalar potential is CP- conserving and has a softly broken Z2Z_2 symmetry. In the presence of a curvature-scalar mixing term ξabRΦaΦb \xi_{ab} \mathcal{R} \Phi_a^\dagger \Phi_b the radion that stabilizes the extra dimension now mixes with the two CP-even neutral scalars hh and HH. A goodness of fit of the LHC data on the properties of the light Higgs is performed on the parameter space of the type-I and type-II models. LHC direct searches for heavy scalars in different decay channels can help distinguish between the radion and a heavy Higgs. The most important signatures involve the ratio of heavy scalar decays into bb quark pairs to those into ZZ pairs, as well as the decay of the scalar (pseudoscalar) into a ZZ plus a pseudoscalar (scalar).

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@article{arxiv.1805.07282,
  title  = {Radion-Higgs Mixing in 2HDMs},
  author = {Marco Merchand and Marc Sher and Keith Thrasher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07282},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages, 27 figures. Version to be published in JHEP

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