Enhancing $t\bar{t}hh$ production through CP-violating top-Higgs interaction at the LHC, ILC and a 100 TeV collider

TL;DR

This paper explores how CP-violating top-Higgs interactions can significantly enhance the production of $t\bar{t}hh$ at various future colliders, offering a new method to probe Higgs self-coupling and top-Higgs dynamics.

Contribution

It demonstrates that CP-violating top-Higgs couplings can increase $t\bar{t}hh$ production rates up to 2.1 times the Standard Model predictions at future colliders, within current Higgs data constraints.

Findings

$t\bar{t}hh$ production can be enhanced up to 2.1 times the SM prediction.

Future Higgs coupling measurements can improve sensitivity to top-Higgs CP violation.

Enhanced $t\bar{t}hh$ production provides a new avenue to study Higgs self-coupling.

Abstract

The measurement of Higgs self-coupling is one of the most crucial physics goals at the future colliders. At the LHC, the di-Higgs production is a main way to measure the Higgs trilinear coupling. As a complementary to the di-Higgs production, $t \bar{t} hh$ process may open a new avenue to measure di-Higgs physics at the LHC and a future 100 TeV $pp$ collider or a high energy $e^+e^-$ collider since the extra $t\bar t$ in the final states may efficiently suppress the backgrounds. However, such a kind of process is also controlled by the top-Higgs coupling. In this work, we investigate the impact of CP-violating top-Higgs coupling on $t\bar{t}hh$ production at the LHC, ILC and a 100 TeV hadron collider under the current Higgs data. Within 2$\sigma$ Higgs data allowed parameter region, we find that the cross section of $t\bar{t}hh$ at the LHC-14 TeV, ILC-1 TeV and VHE-LHC/SPPC-100 TeV can be enhanced up to 2.1 times the SM predictions. The future precise measurement of Higgs coupling will reveal the nature of top-Higgs interaction and improve the sensitivity of the determination of Higgs self-coupling through $t\bar{t}hh$ production.