Probing double-aligned two Higgs doublet models at LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates double-aligned two Higgs doublet models, analyzing their current experimental constraints and future discovery potential at the LHC, especially focusing on electroweak production of additional Higgs bosons below twice the top quark mass.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of double-aligned THDMs, explores their phenomenology at the LHC, and identifies parameter regions accessible with current and future data.

Findings

Most parameter space excluded by current LHC data for leptonic decays

High-luminosity LHC can explore additional Higgs bosons below 2m_t

Masses of additional Higgs bosons can be reconstructed from bbar tau tau final states

Abstract

We consider two Higgs doublet models (THDMs) with both the Higgs potential and Yukawa interactions being aligned, which we call "double-aligned THDMs". In this scenario, coupling constants of the discovered Higgs boson to the Standard Model (SM) particles are identical to those of the SM Higgs boson, and flavor changing neutral currents via neutral Higgs bosons do not appear at tree level. We investigate current constraints and future prospects of the model by using measurements from flavor experiments and data of multi-lepton final states at LHC. Especially, we focus on the electroweak pair production of the additional Higgs bosons with their masses below $2m_t$. We find that the most of the parameter space are already excluded by the current LHC data when the leptonic decays of the additional Higgs bosons are dominant, which can be interpreted to the scenario in the Type-X THDM as a special case. We also clarify the parameter region where the high-luminosity LHC can explore, and demonstrate the reconstruction of the masses of additional Higgs bosons from the $b\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^-$ final states in a few benchmark points.