Charged Higgs and Neutral Higgs pair production of weak gauge bosons fusion process in e+ e- collision

TL;DR

This paper investigates the pair production of charged and neutral Higgs bosons via gauge boson fusion in e+ e- collisions within a neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model, highlighting suppressed single production due to U(1) symmetry.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of Higgs pair production cross sections and signals in the neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model at future e+ e- colliders.

Findings

Cross sections range from 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} fb for 200 GeV Higgs masses.

Signal-to-background ratio is approximately 2-3%.

Pair production is feasible despite suppression of single production due to U(1) symmetry.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the pair production and their decays of the Higges in the neutrinophilic Higgs two doublet model. The pair production occurs through W and Z gauge bosons fusion process. In the neutrinophilic model, the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the second Higgs doublet is small and is proportional to the neutrino mass. The smallness of VEV is associated with the approximate global U(1) symmetry which is slightly broken. Therefore, there is a suppression factor for the U(1) charge breaking process. The second Higgs doublet has U(1) charge and its single production from the gauge boson fusion violates the U(1) charge conservation and is suppressed strongly to occur. In contrast to the single production, the pair production of the Higgses conserves U(1) charge and the approximate symmetry does not forbid it. To search for the pair productions in collider experiment,we study the production cross section of a pair of the charged Higgs and neutral Higgs bosons in e+ e- collision with center of energy from 600 (GeV) to 2000 (GeV). The total cross section varies from 10^{-4}(fb) to 10^{-3}(fb) for degenerate (200 GeV) charged and neutral Higgses mass case. The background process to the signal is gauge bosons pair W + Z production and their decays. We show the signal over background ratio is about 2% ~ 3% by combining the cross section ratio with ratios of branching fractions.