Multiphoton signatures as a probe of CP violation in extended Higgs sectors

Shinya Kanemura (Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan) ; Kento Katayama (Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan) ; Tanmoy Mondal (Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, 333031, Rajasthan, India) ; Kei Yagyu (Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan)

We propose a novel signature with four-photon final states to probe CP-violating (CPV) extended Higgs sectors via ff¯Z*H1H24γ processes with H1,2 being additional neutral Higgs bosons. We focus on the nearly Higgs alignment scenario, in which the discovered Higgs boson almost corresponds to a neutral scalar state belonging to the isospin doublet field with the vacuum expectation value v246 GeV. We show that the branching ratios of H1,2γγ can simultaneously be sizable when CPV phases in the Higgs potential are of order one due to the enhancement of charged-Higgs boson loops. Such branching ratios can be especially significant when the fermiophobic scenario is taken into account. As a simple example, we consider the general two Higgs doublet model, and demonstrate that the cross section for the four-photon process can be 0.1 fb at LHC with the masses of H1,2 to be a few 100 GeV in the Higgs alignment limit under the constraints from electric dipole moments (EDMs) and LHC Run-II data. We also illustrate that the searches for EDMs and diphoton resonances at high-luminosity LHC play complementary roles to explore CPV extended Higgs sectors.

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Published on:
05 February 2024
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 109 (2024)
Issue 3
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.033002
arXiv:
2308.01772
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Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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