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Indications for new Higgs bosons at 95\,GeV and 152\,GeV with significance of 3.8$\sigma$ and $4.3\sigma$, respectively, have been obtained. While the former contains the inclusive $\gamma\gamma$ channel, the latter is obtained by combining…
We show that the gauge singlet scalar boson in low-energy supersymmetric model may behave as the standard model (SM) Higgs boson if the singlet couples to (heavy) vector-like colored particles. In this case, the SM-Higgs-like signal at the…
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Rare Higgs decays into a pair of heavy vector quarkonia, $h\to VV$ ($V=J/\Psi$, $\Upsilon$ etc.), have been investigated in the standard model. Different from the past literature in which these decays are thought to be only dominated by the…
New physics coupled to the Higgs boson may hide it in the standard decay channels to be investigated at LHC. We consider the models where new invisible dominant decay modes of the Higgs boson are responsible for this hiding. We propose to…
We investigate the phenomenological impact of incorporating vector-like bottom (VLB) quarks into the Type-II Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM-II). This framework introduces novel beyond-Standard-Model (BSM) decay channels $B \to Hb$, $B \to…
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Within models containing a very light scalar particle coupled to the 125 GeV Higgs boson, we present the first detailed study of Higgs decays into three of these light scalars. We determine model-independent conditions which the scalar…
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We present a detailed study of the decays of the neutral Higgs bosons $H^0$ and $A^0$ within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We find that the supersymmetric modes ${\tilde{t}}\bar{\tilde{t}}$ and ${\tilde{b}}\bar{\tilde{b}}$ can…
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