Kinematic corrections and reconstruction methods for neutral Higgs boson decay to $b\bar{b}$ in 2HDM type-I at future lepton colliders

TL;DR

This study proposes a kinematic correction method for reconstructing neutral Higgs bosons decaying into b-quark pairs in 2HDM type-I at future electron-positron colliders, demonstrating potential for significant signals.

Contribution

It introduces a novel kinematic correction approach for accurate Higgs reconstruction in 2HDM type-I at 1 TeV colliders, enhancing detection prospects.

Findings

Achieves over 5σ significance for Higgs signals before 8 ab^{-1} luminosity.

Effective reconstruction of both Higgs bosons via b-jet invariant mass.

Demonstrates the method's robustness across benchmark scenarios.

Abstract

In this paper, an approach for neutral Higgs bosons search is described based on 2HDM type-I at electron-positron linear colliders operating at $ \sqrt{s}=1$ TeV. The beam is assumed to be unpolarized and fast detector simulation is included. The signal process produces a fully hadronic final state through $ e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow AH\rightarrow b\bar{b}b\bar{b} $ where both CP-even and CP-odd Higgs bosons ($H$ and $A$) are assumed to decay to a pair of $b$-jets. Several benchmark scenarios are introduced as the baseline for the analysis taking $ m_{H/A}$ in the range 150--300 GeV. In order to avoid Higgs boson conversion $A \to ZH$, Higgs boson masses are chosen with $m_A-m_H < m_Z$. It is shown that with a proper kinematic correction applied on final state $b$-jet four momenta, true combinations of $b$-jets can be found for simultaneous reconstruction of both Higgs bosons through $b\bar{b}$ invariant mass calculation. Results show that observable signals can be achieved with statistical significance exceeding $5\sigma$ well before the target integrated luminosity of 8 $ab^{-1}$.