Journal of High Energy Physics (Dec 2022)

Exploring extended Higgs sectors via pair production at the LHC

  • G. Cacciapaglia,
  • T. Flacke,
  • M. Kunkel,
  • W. Porod,
  • L. Schwarze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 12
pp. 1 – 36

Abstract

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Abstract Higgs sectors extended by electroweakly charged scalars can be explored by scalar pair production at the LHC. We consider a fermiophobic scenario, with decays into a pair of gauge bosons, and a fermiophilic one, with decays into top and bottom quarks. After establishing the current bounds on simplified models, we focus on an SU(5)/SO(5) composite Higgs model. This first exploration demonstrates the need for dedicated searches at current and future colliders.

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