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Complete Light Long-Lived Particles searches in Type-I 2HDM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-19 v1

Abstract

Recently, the study of long-lived particles (LLPs) has attracted increasing attention. In this work, we analyze the full parameter space of the Type-I Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) that allows for light long-lived scalar (HH) and pseudoscalar (AA) particles. When involving a light beyongd Standard Model (BSM) Higgs, the ΔS\Delta S could be the main contribution during the global fit of the oblique parameters, which is different to ΔT\Delta T being the main factor for heavy BSM Higgs cases. By imposing theoretical constraints such as vacuum stability and perturbative unitarity, together with current experimental bounds, we summarize a complete region for a potential light HH with cos(βα)1tanβ\cos(\beta - \alpha) \simeq \frac{1}{\tan \beta}, light AA with cos(βα)1tanβ2mH2mh2mH2mh2\cos(\beta - \alpha) \simeq \frac{1}{\tan\beta} \frac{2m_H^2 - m_h^2}{m_H^2 - m_h^2}, and point out the invisible Higgs decay is the most important constraint. We further identify viable regions for LLPs and propose four benchmark regions that simultaneously accommodate a light long-lived particle and explain the WW boson mass anomaly. For these benchmarks, we present the reaches of FASER and FASER~2, where FASER~2 improves the sensitivity by approximately two orders of magnitude compared to FASER.

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@article{arxiv.2508.12309,
  title  = {Complete Light Long-Lived Particles searches in Type-I 2HDM},
  author = {Xueying Qi and Huayang Song and Wei Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.12309},
  year   = {2025}
}

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40 pages, 15 figures

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