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Title: Exotic Higgs decays in Type-II 2HDMs at the LHC and future 100 TeV hadron colliders

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Jinan (China)
  3. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

The exotic decay modes of non-Standard Model (SM) Higgses in models with extended Higgs sectors have the potential to serve as powerful search channels to explore the space of Two-Higgs Doublet Models (2HDMs). Once kinematically allowed, heavy Higgses could decay into pairs of light non-SM Higgses, or a non-SM Higgs and a SM gauge boson, with branching fractions that quickly dominate those of the conventional decay modes to SM particles. In this study, we focus on the prospects of probing Type-II 2HDMs at the LHC and a future 100 TeV pp collider via exotic decay channels. We study the three prominent exotic decay channels: A → HZ, A → H±W and H± → HW±, and find that a 100-TeV pp collider can probe most of the region of the Type-II 2HDM parameter space that survives current theoretical and experimental constraints with sizable exotic decay branching fraction through these channels, making them complementary to the conventional decay channels for heavy non-SM Higgses.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009913; FG02-13ER41976; PHY-1620638; 11635009; ZR2017JL006
OSTI ID:
1611215
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2019, Issue 6; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 22 works
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