Top-Higgs Associated Production involving {\boldmath ${A^0},\, {H^0}$} with Mass at 300 GeV

TL;DR

This paper explores a two Higgs doublet model with extra top Yukawa couplings, analyzing the potential for 300 GeV $A^0$ and $H^0$ bosons to produce distinctive signatures at colliders, including same-sign top and triple-top events.

Contribution

It introduces a model with specific Yukawa couplings, investigates collider signatures of $A^0$ and $H^0$ at 300 GeV, and suggests new search strategies for these particles.

Findings

$A^0$ and $H^0$ are still allowed at 300 GeV mass.

Potential collider signatures include same-sign top and top-assisted di-Higgs.

Current 4-top searches provide some constraints, but direct triple-top searches are promising.

Abstract

We advocate two Higgs doublet model without $Z_2$ symmetry, and focus on the extra top Yukawa couplings $\rho_{tt}$ and $\rho_{tc}$. We show that $A^0$ and $H^0$ bosons are still allowed at 300 GeV mass, where $cg \to tA^0$, $tH^0$ can lead to $tt\bar c$ same-sign top, or top-assisted di-Higgs $th^0h^0$ signatures, resp. As bonus material, we explore the constraint provided by current 4-top search, but advocate direct search for triple-top generated by $cg \to tH^0/A^0 \to tt\bar t$ for $H^0,\, A^0$ above $t\bar t$ threshold, and offer some insight on the mild but intriguing "excess" found by CMS in $gg \to A^0 \to t\bar t$ at 400 GeV.