Laser-assisted CP-odd and CP-even Higgs bosons production in THDM

TL;DR

This paper investigates how a circularly polarized laser field influences the production of neutral Higgs boson pairs in the Two Higgs Doublet Model during electron-positron collisions, providing theoretical cross section calculations.

Contribution

It presents the first theoretical analysis of laser-assisted neutral Higgs pair production in THDM, including differential and total cross sections with numerical evaluations.

Findings

Laser field affects Higgs pair production cross sections.

Maximum cross section occurs at high center of mass energy.

Cross sections depend on Higgs masses, energy, and laser parameters.

Abstract

In this paper, we have theoretically studied the neutral Higgs pair production in Two Higgs Doublet Model (THDM) in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field. The laser-assisted differential partial cross section is derived in the centre of mass frame at the leading order including $Z$ diagram. The total cross section is computed numerically by integrating the differential cross section over the solid angle $d\Omega$. Two benchmark points are discussed for the THDM parameters. In the first step, we have analyzed the total cross section of ${e}^{+}{e}^{-}\rightarrow h^{0}A^{0}$ by considering $H^{0}$ as the standard model-like Higgs boson. Then, the process ${e}^{+}{e}^{-}\rightarrow H^{0}A^{0}$ is studied by taking $h^{0}$ as the Higgs boson of the standard model. For both benchmark points, the laser-assisted total cross section of the studied processes depends on the produced neutral Higgs masses, the centre of mass energy and the laser field parameters. In addition, the maximum cross section occurs at high centre of mass energy for the process ${e}^{+}{e}^{-}\rightarrow H^{0}A^{0}$ as compared to that of ${e}^{+}{e}^{-}\rightarrow h^{0}A^{0}$.