Production of multiple charged Higgs bosons in 3-3-1 models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production and detection of multiple charged Higgs bosons predicted by 3-3-1 models at the LHC, highlighting their unique properties and potential experimental signatures.

Contribution

It demonstrates the simultaneous production of multiple charged Higgs bosons in 3-3-1 models and analyzes their potential observability at the LHC.

Findings

Pair production of charged Higgs can be as large as single production due to Z' exchange.

Distinct decay signatures allow differentiation between multiple Higgs bosons.

Potential to identify multiple Higgs resonances in transverse mass distributions.

Abstract

We undertake the study of the charged Higgs bosons predicted by the model with gauge symmetry $SU(3)_c \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes U(1)_X$. By considering Yukawa mixing couplings between small ($\sim$ GeV) and large ($\sim$ TeV) scales, we show that the hypercharge-one $H_1^{\pm}$ and hypercharge-two $H_2^{\pm}$ Higgs bosons predicted by the model, can be simultaneously produced in $pp$ collisions at different production rates. At low energy, the $H_1^{\pm}$ bosons exhibit the same properties as the charged Higgs bosons from a two Higgs doublet model (2HDM), while $H_2^{\pm}$ are additional like-charged Higgs bosons from the underlying 3-3-1 model. Thus, the identification of multiple like-charged Higgs boson resonances may test the compatibility of theoretical models with experimental data. We study $H_{1,2}^{\pm}$ pair and associated $tbH_{1,2}^{\pm}$ productions at CERN LHC collider. In particular, we obtain that pair production can be as large as the single production in gluon-gluon collisions due to the interchange of a heavy neutral $Z'$ gauge boson predicted by the model. By considering decays to leptons $H_{1,2}^{\pm} \rightarrow \tau \nu_{\tau}$, we obtain scenarios where small peaks of $H_{2}^{\pm}$-boson events in transverse mass distributions can be identified over the $H_{1}^{\pm}$ background.