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In 2018 CMS reported an excess in the light Higgs-boson search in the diphoton decay mode at about 95GeV based on Run 1 and first year Run 2 data. The combined local significance of the excess was $2.8\,\sigma$. The excess is compatible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Thomas Biekötter , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein

A recent study [1] has shown that a simplified model predicting a heavy scalar of mass 270 GeV ($H$) that decays to a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in association with a scalar singlet of mass 150 GeV ($S$) can accommodate several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-18 Stefan von Buddenbrock , Alan S. Cornell , Yaquan Fang , Abdualazem Fadol Mohammed , Mukesh Kumar , Bruce Mellado , Kehinde G. Tomiwa

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

Since the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson at the LHC, as the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, any hint of new physics has been intensively searched for, with no confirmation to date. There are however…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-25 Ernesto Arganda , Leandro Da Rold , Daniel A. Díaz , Anibal D. Medina

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

The CMS collaboration reported an intriguing \sim 3 sigma (local) excess at 96 GeV in the light Higgs-boson search in the diphoton decay mode. This mass coincides with a \sim 2 sigma (local) excess in the bb final state at LEP. We briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 T. Biekötter , M. Chakraborti , S. Heinemeyer

Recently, ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC put on light the relevant results in the measurement precision of the Higgs and BSM. In such a report, where the resonance direct search was made in the $\gamma Z$ channel, a mass adjustment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-29 R. Benbrik , M. Boukidi , M. Ouchemhou , L. Rahili , O. Tibssirte

In generalizations of the Standard Models with extended scalar sectors, pseudoscalar particles will contribute to associated production of the Higgs boson discovered at the LHC, $h$, and the $Z$ boson. The pseudoscalar can be produced via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 J. Dutta , P. M. Ferreira , S. Heinemeyer

We consider the di-photon signal arises from two bunches of collimated photon jets emitting from a pair of highly boosted scalars. Following the discussion of detecting the photon jets at the collider, we extend the two-Higgs-doublet model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 Yun Jiang , Lingfeng Li , Rui Zheng

A study of two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDM) in the decoupling limit reveals the existence of parameter configurations with a large triple-Higgs self-coupling as the only low-energy trace of a departure from a Standard Model (SM) Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Moretti , S. Moretti , F. Piccinini , R. Pittau , A. D. Polosa

We consider implications of the diphoton excess recently observed at the LHC on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon $(g-2)_\mu = 2 a_\mu$, hypothesizing that the possible 750 GeV resonance is a (pseudo)scalar particle. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-20 Seungwon Baek , Jae-hyeon Park

The Large Hadron Collider is shown to have great scope for a light charged Higgs discovery, in the context of the CP-violating type-I two Higgs doublet model. This scenario with similar masses of $H^\pm$ and W was suggested by the puzzling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-15 Wolfgang Mader , Jae-hyeon Park , Giovanni Marco Pruna , Dominik Stöckinger , Arno Straessner

We propose an NMSSM scenario that can explain the excess in the diphoton spectrum at 750 GeV recently observed by ATLAS and CMS. We show that in a certain limit with a very light pseudoscalar one can reproduce the experimental results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 F. Domingo , S. Heinemeyer , J. S. Kim , K. Rolbiecki

The CMS collaboration reported a $\sim 3 \, \sigma$ (local) excess at $96\;$GeV in the search for light Higgs-boson decaying into two photons. This mass coincides with a $\sim 2 \, \sigma$ (local) excess in the $b\bar b$ final state at LEP.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 S. Heinemeyer , C. Li , F. Lika , G. Moortgat-Pick , S. Paasch

In models with multiple nondegenerate Higgs bosons, the decay chain $H/A \to A/H Z\to t\bar{t} Z$ may have a partial width comparable to the $t\bar{t}$ decay mode. We recast the ATLAS standard model $t\bar{t} Z$ measurement to put limits on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Bob Holdom , Melissa Ratzlaff

The CMS collaboration has recently reported the results of a low-mass Higgs-boson search in the di-photon final state based on the full Run 2 data set with refined analysis techniques. The new results show an excess of events at a mass of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-13 T. Biekötter , S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein

This paper presents a study of a possible contribution to a Higgs boson signal in the $hh\to \gamma\gamma\gamma\gamma$ channel due to $H\to hh$ decays, in the framework of the CP-conserving 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-I (2HDM-I), where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Abdesslam Arhrib , Rachid Benbrik , Stefano Moretti , Abdessamad Rouchad , Qi-Shu Yan , Xianhui Zhang

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 investigate the phenomenology of the charged Higgs boson at the International Linear Collider (ILC) within the framework of the type-X Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), where a light charged Higgs boson, with a mass around 200 GeV or even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Brahim Ait Ouazghour , Abdesslam Arhrib , Kingman Cheung , Es-said Ghourmin , Mohamed Krab , Larbi Rahili

The Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN confirmed the existence of the last missing particle of the Standard Model (SM). The existence of new fundamental constituents of matter beyond the SM is of great…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Srimoy Bhattacharya , Benjamin Lieberman , Mukesh Kumar , Andreas Crivellin , Yaquan Fang , Rachid Mazini , Bruce Mellado