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We explore the possibilities in two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDMs) of Type I and Type II for Higgs states with mass below about 60 GeV, i.e. less than half of the ~125 GeV mass of the observed SM-like Higgs boson. We identify the latter as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-29 Jeremy Bernon , John F. Gunion , Yun Jiang , Sabine Kraml

Motivated by results recently reported by the CMS Collaboration about an excess in the di-photon spectrum at about 96 GeV, especially when combined with another long-standing anomaly at the same value in the $b\bar b$ invariant mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Rachid Benbrik , Mohammed Boukidi , Stefano Moretti , Souad Semlali

In this work, we explore how the 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I, extended by an inert doublet, can provide an explanation for the recently observed excesses at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the $\gamma\gamma$ and $\tau^+ \tau^- $…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ayoub Hmissou , Stefano Moretti , Larbi Rahili

The ATLAS collaboration (and also CMS) has recently reported an excess over Standard Model expectations for gauge boson pair production in the invariant mass region $1.8-2.2$ TeV. In the light of these results, we argue that such signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 D. Aristizabal Sierra , J. Herrero-Garcia , D. Restrepo , A. Vicente

The CMS and ATLAS collaborations recently published their results searching for light Higgs bosons, using the complete Run 2 data of the LHC. Both reported an excess in the diphoton invariant mass distribution at $m_{\gamma \gamma} \simeq…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-23 Junjie Cao , Xinglong Jia , Jingwei Lian , Lei Meng

We discuss a possible explanation of the recently observed diphoton excess at around 750 GeV as seen by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the cross section of the diphoton signature in 2-Higgs Doublet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Stefano Moretti , Kei Yagyu

Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson by the four LEP experiments found excess events in two mass ranges: a 2.3 sigma excess around 98 GeV, and an 1.7 sigma excess around 115 GeV. The latter has been discussed widely in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Manuel Drees

There are several excesses of events in current LHC data, yet not exceeding the level of significance which would make them to be considered as firm. They point to the possibility of the presence of a new Higgs particle in the spectrum, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Giorgio Arcadi , Abdelhak Djouadi

In this study, we propose the interpretation of a 650 GeV excess observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by the CMS Collaboration in terms of the production of a CP-odd (or pseudoscalar) Higgs boson A, with mass around 650 GeV, decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Ayoub Hmissou , Stefano Moretti , Larbi Rahili

Physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) may manifest itself as small deviations from the SM predictions for Higgs signal strengths at 125 GeV. Then, a plausible and interesting possibility is that the Higgs sector is extended and at the weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-28 Kiwoon Choi , Sang Hui Im , Kwang Sik Jeong , Chan Beom Park

We study the Higgs sector of supersymmetric models containing two Higgs doublets with a light MSSM-like CP odd Higgs, $m_A \lesssim 10$ GeV, and $\tan \beta \lesssim 2.5$. In this scenario all Higgses resulting from two Higgs doublets:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-06 Radovan Dermisek

In this work we study the light Higgs scenario in the framework of two Higgs doublet model (2HDM). In this case the heavier CP-even Higgs boson $H$ in 2HDM is the SM-like Higgs with 125 GeV mass and a CP-even Higgs boson $h$ lighter than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-27 Ning Chen , Tong Li , Wei Su , Yongcheng Wu

Theoretical arguments and lattice simulations suggest that, beside the known resonance of mass $m_h=$ 125 GeV, the Higgs field might exhibit a second resonance with a larger mass $(M_H)^{\rm theor} = 690 \pm 10 ~({\rm stat}) \pm 20 ~({\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Maurizio Consoli , Leonardo Cosmai , Fabrizio Fabbri

The LHC analyses of processes containing two or more leptons and missing energy, possibly in association with b-jets, show strong tensions with the Standard Model predictions and are known as multi-lepton anomalies. In particular, top-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-07 Guglielmo Coloretti , Andreas Crivellin , Bruce Mellado

The complex two-Higgs doublet model (C2HDM) is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model with a source of CP-violation in the scalar sector. It has a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, softly broken by a complex coefficient. There are four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Thomas Biekötter , Duarte Fontes , Margarete Mühlleitner , Jorge C. Romão , Rui Santos , João P. Silva

In the search for a light Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed excesses in both the diphoton ($\gamma\gamma$) and di-tau-pair ($\tau^+\tau^-$) decay channels at about $95$ GeV. The LEP collaboration has also previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-16 Brahim Ait-Ouazghour , Mohamed Chabab , Khalid Goure

A second light Higgs boson, with mass of approximately 145 GeV, is predicted by non-minimal Supersymmetric models. This new particle can account for an apparent \sim 3 \sigma excess recorded by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-26 S. Khalil , S. Moretti

Motivated by the possible 95 GeV diphoton excess, we investigate the capability of the Type-I Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM-I) to explain this signal under current theoretical and experimental constraints. Using full Monte Carlo (MC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Yabo Dong , Kun Wang , Jingya Zhu

Motivated by a $\sim 3\sigma$ excess recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC around a mass of order $\sim 137$ GeV in $ZZ\to 4l$ and $\gamma\gamma$ samples, we analyse the discovery potential of a second neutral Higgs boson in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 W. Abdallah , S. Khalil , S. Moretti

In both Run 1 and Run 2 of the LHC, the CMS collaboration has observed an excess of events in the searches for low-mass Higgs bosons in the diphoton final state at a mass of about 95 GeV. After a recent update of the experimental analysis,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-29 Duarte Azevedo , Thomas Biekötter , P. M. Ferreira