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The CMS and ATLAS Collaborations have recently reported their findings based on the comprehensive run 2 dataset, detailing their searches for a light Higgs boson with a mass of approximately 95 GeV. We investigate the excesses observed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Song Gao , Shu-Min Zhao , Shuang Di , Xing-Xing Dong , Tai-Fu Feng

The recent results reported by the CMS collaboration, indicating "bumps" in the $\gamma\gamma$ and $\tau\tau$ channels at $m_\phi\approx 95$ GeV, provide interesting hints for new physics. We find that the lightest Higgs state of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 A. Belyaev , R. Benbrik , M. Boukidi , M. Chakraborti , S. Moretti , S. Semlali

In the context of minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), we discuss the possibility of the lightest Higgs boson with mass $M_h = 98 $ GeV to be consistent with the $2.3\sigma$ excess observed at the LEP in the decay mode $e^+e^- \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Manimala Chakraborti , Amit Chakraborty , Utpal Chattopadhyay , Dilip Kumar Ghosh

Recently, the CMS Collaboration performed a search on a new resonance decaying to $e^\pm\mu^\mp$ in the mass range of 110 GeV to 160 GeV. The search also hints a possible excess at 146 GeV with a $3.8\sigma~(2.8\sigma)$ of local (global)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 R. Primulando , J. Julio , N. Srimanobhas , P. Uttayarat

The latest results of Higgs boson searches from the four LEP experiments, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, are reviewed using the data taken in 1996 at center-of-mass energies between 161 and 172 GeV. No signal was observed. The 95% CL combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Andre Sopczak

The particle discovered in the Higgs boson searches at the LHC with a mass of about 125 GeV is compatible within the present uncertainties with the Higgs boson predicted in the Standard Model (SM), but it could also be identified with one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-22 P. Drechsel , G. Moortgat-Pick , G. Weiglein

A direct search for doubly-charged Higgs bosons $H^{\pm\pm}$ is one of the most important probe in the Higgs Triplet Model, which is motivated by generation mechanisms of tiny neutrino masses. There are two major decay modes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-31 Shinya Kanemura , Mariko Kikuchi , Kei Yagyu , Hiroshi Yokoya

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

The Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM) is a well motivated BSM model which can accommodate the observed 125 GeV Higgs boson in agreement with electroweak precision observables, in particular with the $W$ boson mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 Jan Kalinowski , Wojciech Kotlarski

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

We analyze the excesses at 95 GeV in the light Higgs-boson searches in the di-photon decay channel reported by CMS and ATLAS, which combined are at the level of three standard deviations and are compatible with the excess in the $b\bar{b}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Ting-Kuo Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein

We analyse a light charged Higgs boson in the 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I, when its mass satisfies the condition $M_{H^{\pm}} < M_{t}+M_{b}$ and the parameter space is consistent with theoretical requirements of self-consistency as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Yan Wang , A. Arhrib , R. Benbrik , M. Krab , B. Manaut , S. Moretti , Qi-Shu Yan

CMS and ATLAS have reported small excesses in the search for low-mass Higgs bosons in the di-photon decay channel at exactly the same mass, $95.4~$GeV. These searches rely on improved analysis techniques, enhancing in particular the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Ting-Kuo Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations reported a diphoton excess in the invariant mass distribution around the 95.4 GeV with a local significance of $3.1\sigma$. Moreover, there is another $2.3\sigma$ local excess in the $b\bar{b}$ final state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jing Gao , Jinghong Ma , Lei Wang , Haotian Xu

We examine the LEP limits for the $Zh\to Z+b$'s final state and find that the excess of observed events for $\mh\sim 100\gev$ correlates well with there being an $\mh\sim 100\gev$ Higgs boson with SM-like $ZZh$ coupling that decays partly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Radovan Dermisek , John F. Gunion

Recent analyses by CMS and ATLAS suggest a deviation in the di-photon channel at approximately 95 GeV, alongside a previously observed excess in $b\bar{b}$ signals at a similar mass by LEP, potentially hinting at a new scalar particle. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Jingwei Lian

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

Light Higgs bosons (h^0) with a mass below 60 GeV may have escaped detection at LEP due to a suppressed cross-section for e^+e^-\to Zh^0. Their discovery is also problematic in standard search channels at the Tevatron Run II and LHC. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 A. G. Akeroyd

It is important to study extended models containing more than one physical Higgs boson in the spectrum. In particular, Two Higgs Doublet Models (2HDMs) are attractive extensions of the SM, predicting new phenomena with the fewest new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Pamela Ferrari

Hints for an additional Higgs boson with a mass of about 95 GeV originate from LEP and searches in the diphoton channel by CMS and ATLAS. A search for resonant production of SM plus BSM Higgs bosons in the diphoton plus bb channel by CMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Ulrich Ellwanger , Cyril Hugonie