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Probing double-aligned two Higgs doublet models at LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider two Higgs doublet models (THDMs) with both the Higgs potential and Yukawa interactions being aligned, which we call "double-aligned THDMs". In this scenario, coupling constants of the discovered Higgs boson to the Standard Model (SM) particles are identical to those of the SM Higgs boson, and flavor changing neutral currents via neutral Higgs bosons do not appear at tree level. We investigate current constraints and future prospects of the model by using measurements from flavor experiments and data of multi-lepton final states at LHC. Especially, we focus on the electroweak pair production of the additional Higgs bosons with their masses below 2mt2m_t. We find that the most of the parameter space are already excluded by the current LHC data when the leptonic decays of the additional Higgs bosons are dominant, which can be interpreted to the scenario in the Type-X THDM as a special case. We also clarify the parameter region where the high-luminosity LHC can explore, and demonstrate the reconstruction of the masses of additional Higgs bosons from the bbˉτ+τb\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^- final states in a few benchmark points.

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@article{arxiv.2112.13679,
  title  = {Probing double-aligned two Higgs doublet models at LHC},
  author = {Shinya Kanemura and Michihisa Takeuchi and Kei Yagyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13679},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages, 10 figures

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