Complete Light Long-Lived Particles searches in Type-I 2HDM
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 () and pseudoscalar () particles. When involving a light beyongd Standard Model (BSM) Higgs, the could be the main contribution during the global fit of the oblique parameters, which is different to 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 with , light with , 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 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
40 pages, 15 figures