Multi-Higgs Boson Probes of the Dark Sector

TL;DR

This paper investigates multi-Higgs boson signals from dark sectors with broken gauge symmetries, focusing on collider signatures involving di-Higgs and tri-Higgs final states with missing energy, using advanced analysis techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of multi-Higgs signatures from dark sectors at colliders, highlighting promising di-Higgs channels and assessing the challenges of tri-Higgs detection.

Findings

Di-Higgs channels with $b\bar{b}+\gamma\gamma$ and $b\bar{b}+\ell\ell$ are promising for detection.

Tri-Higgs final states with missing energy are challenging for the LHC.

Fully hadronic Higgs decays could improve tri-Higgs detection prospects.

Abstract

We consider dark sectors with spontaneously broken gauge symmetries, where cascade decays of the dark sector fields naturally produce multi-Higgs boson final states along with dark matter. Our study focuses on two and three Higgs boson final states with missing energy using a multivariate analysis with Boosted Decision Trees. We find that the di-Higgs boson channel is quite promising for the $\bar b b + \gamma \gamma$ and $\bar b b + \bar \ell \ell$ decay modes. The tri-Higgs boson final state with missing energy, on the other hand, appears to be beyond the reach of the LHC in analogous channels. This may change when fully hadronic Higgs boson decays are considered.