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A strong first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) can be induced by light new physics weakly coupled to the Higgs. This study focuses on a scenario in which the first-order EWPT is driven by a light scalar $s$ with a mass between…

A search is presented for a high-mass Higgs boson in the $H\rightarrow\ell\ell\ell\ell$, $H\rightarrow\ell\ell\nu\nu$, $H\rightarrow\ell\ell qq$, and $H\rightarrow\nu\nu qq$ decay modes using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-08 ATLAS Collaboration

Scalar extensions of the Standard Model are of much interest at the LHC and future colliders. In particular, these models can give rise to resonant di-Higgs production and alter the Higgs trilinear coupling. In this paper, we study di-Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Ian M. Lewis , Jacob Scott , Miguel A. Soto Alcaraz , Matthew Sullivan

Most of the current experimental searches for charged Higgs bosons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) concentrate upon the $tb$ and $\tau\nu$ decay channels. In the present study, we analyze instead the feasibility of the bosonic decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-18 Z. Li , A. Arhrib , R. Benbrik , M. Krab , B. Manaut , S. Moretti , Y. Wang , Q. S. Yan

We present strategies to search for heavy neutral Higgs bosons decaying to top quark pairs, as often occurs at low $\tan \beta$ in type II two Higgs doublet models such as the Higgs sector of the MSSM. The resonant production channel is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-13 Nathaniel Craig , Jan Hajer , Ying-Ying Li , Tao Liu , Hao Zhang

Recent searches by the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the `diphoton plus $b\bar{b}$ final state' have revealed an excess near 650 GeV, which might indicate the presence of a (broad) heavy resonance decaying into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Rachid Benbrik , Mohammed Boukidi , Khouloud Kahime , Stefano Moretti , Larbi Rahili , Bassim Taki

We study LHC Higgs signatures from the extended electroweak gauge symmetry SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1). Under this gauge structure, we present an effective UV completion of the 3-site moose model with ideal fermion delocalization, which contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-16 Tomohiro Abe , Ning Chen , Hong-Jian He

The final state obtained when a Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson has been mostly overlooked in current searches for a light Higgs boson. However, when the Z boson decays leptonically, all final state particles in this channel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 James S. Gainer , Wai-Yee Keung , Ian Low , Pedro Schwaller

We study the signals and backgrounds for a heavy Higgs boson in the processes $\gamma\gamma\to WWWW$, $\gamma\gamma\to WWZZ$ at the photon linear collider. The results are based on the complete tree level SM calculation for these reactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 George Jikia

In light of the discovery of a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson ($h$) at the LHC, we investigate the top quark to Higgs boson transition $t\rightarrow W^{*}bh$, which is the leading $t\to h$ decay mode in the SM. We find the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-30 Tao Han , Richard Ruiz

In this work, we present a detailed collider phenomenology study of the charged Higgs boson within a Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) framework featuring an extended gauge and scalar sector. The charged Higgs can decay via conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Baradhwaj Coleppa , Gokul B. Krishna

This study investigates the electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG) in the real singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM), including dimension-six operators, which couple the Higgs boson to a real singlet scalar field. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Apostolos Giovanakis

A search is conducted for standard model Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum ($p_\mathrm{T}$) decaying to bottom quark pairs and produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at the LHC. The result is based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-12 CMS Collaboration

An essential goal of the Higgs physics program at the LHC and beyond is to explore the nature of the Higgs potential and shed light on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. An important class of models defining the strength and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-17 Marcela Carena , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Zhen Liu , Tong Ou , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Jessie Shelton , Yikun Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

A search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson ($\mathrm{H}$) decaying to $\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}$ when produced in association with an electroweak vector boson is reported for the following processes:…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-28 CMS Collaboration

This article presents a search for new resonances decaying into a $Z$ or $W$ boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson $h$, and it targets the $\nu\bar{\nu}b\bar{b}$, $\ell^+\ell^-b\bar{b}$, or $\ell^{\pm}{\nu}b\bar{b}$ final states, where $\ell=e$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-15 ATLAS Collaboration

A first search at the LHC for a new heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a neutral scalar boson $\phi$ in the fully hadronic final state is presented, where the $\phi$ boson is identified by its decay into a bottom quark-antiquark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 CMS Collaboration

A precise measurement of the Higgs boson couplings to bottom and top quarks is of paramount importance during the upcoming LHC runs. We present a comprehensive analysis for the Higgs production process in association with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Niccolo Moretti , Petar Petrov , Stefano Pozzorini , Michael Spannowsky

The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searched for a charged Higgs boson, in the mass range of 300 to 700 GeV, decaying into a $W^{\pm}$ boson and a heavy neutral Higgs boson of mass $200$ GeV, which successively decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Swagata Ghosh

In this study, we focus on the bosonic decays of light charged Higgs boson (i.e., with $M_{H^\pm}<m_t$) in the 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I. To study the signal of such a charged Higgs state at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Abdesslam Arhrib , Rachid Benbrik , Hicham Harouiz , Stefano Moretti , Yan Wang , Qi-Shu Yan