Laser-assisted neutral Higgs-boson pair production in Inert Higgs Doublet Model (IHDM)

TL;DR

This paper investigates neutral Higgs-boson pair production in the Inert Higgs Doublet Model under intense laser fields, deriving analytical cross sections and analyzing their dependence on various physical parameters.

Contribution

It provides the first analytical expression for the differential cross section of Higgs pair production in a laser field within the IHDM, including numerical analysis of parameter dependencies.

Findings

Total cross section varies with Higgs mass and laser field amplitude.

Cross section depends on the number of exchanged photons and center of mass energy.

Analytical formulas enable detailed exploration of laser effects on Higgs production.

Abstract

In the framework of the Inert Higgs Doublet model (IHDM), we have investigated, in the center of mass frame, the neutral Higgs-boson pair production in the presence of an intense and circularly polarized laser field via ${e}^{+} {e}^{-}$ annihilation $({e}^{+} {e}^{-}\rightarrow H^{0}A^{0})$ at the lowest order. By using the scattering matrix method, we have derived the analytical expression of the differential cross section. The latter is numerically integrated over the solid angle to obtain the total cross section. Then, we have shown how this total cross section depends on the outgoing particles mass for different number of exchanged photons. Next, we have illustrated its variation as a function of the centre of mass energy for different neutral Higgs-boson masses. Finally, we have indicated how it changes as a function of the laser field amplitudes for both different number of exchanged photons and different neutral Higgs-bosons masses.