A comprehensive study of the charged Higgs boson in the two Higgs doublet type-II seesaw model

TL;DR

This paper explores the production and detection prospects of charged Higgs bosons in a specific two-Higgs-doublet model at future muon colliders, highlighting potential cross sections and discovery regions.

Contribution

It provides a detailed phenomenological analysis of charged Higgs boson production in the 2HDMcT Type-III model at muon colliders, including cross section calculations and discovery potential.

Findings

Cross sections for $ o H_1^+ H_1^-$ can match or exceed $e^+ e^-$ colliders.

Enhanced cross section for $ o H_1^+ H_2^-$ up to 0.62 fb under certain constraints.

Significant cross section enhancement for $ o H^+_1 W^-$ due to large $ aneta$.

Abstract

We investigate the phenomenology of the charged Higgs boson within the Two-Higgs-Doublet Type-II Seesaw Model (2HDMcT Type-III) at future $\mu^+ \mu^-$ colliders. Focusing on $2 \to 2$ processes such as $\mu^+ \mu^- \to H^+_1 S^-$ ($S^- = H^-_1, H^-_2$) and $\mu^+ \mu^- \to H^+_1 W^-$, we incorporate both theoretical and experimental constraints to assess their production prospects. We find that $\sigma(\mu^+ \mu^- \to H_1^+ H_1^-)$ can reach or exceed the corresponding $e^+ e^-$ cross section, while $\sigma(\mu^+ \mu^- \to H_1^+ H_2^-)$ is roughly eighteen times smaller but can be enhanced up to 0.62 fb upon relaxing electroweak precision observables constraints. Moreover, we observe that the cross section for $\mu^+ \mu^- \to H^+_1 W^-$ is significantly enhanced due to the large $\tan\beta$ amplification characteristic of the Type-III scenario. Furthermore, we conduct a signal-background analysis and determine the discovery ($5\sigma$) regions at a 3 TeV muon collider for the $\mu^+ \mu^- \to H_1^+ H_1^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^- \to H_1^+ H_2^-$, and $\mu^+ \mu^- \to W^\pm H_1^\mp$ processes.