In extended Higgs sectors that exhibit alignment without decoupling, the additional scalars are allowed to have large couplings to the Standard Model Higgs. We show that current nonresonant di-Higgs searches can be straightforwardly adapted to look for additional Higgses in these scenarios, where pair production of non-SM Higgses can be enhanced. For concreteness, we study pair production of exotic Higgses in the context of an almost inert two Higgs doublet model, where alignment is explained through an approximate $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry under which the additional scalars are odd. In this context, the smallness of the $\mathbb Z_2$ violating parameter suppresses single production of exotic Higgses, but it does not prevent a sizeable trilinear coupling $hHH$ between the SM Higgs ($h$) and the additional states ($H$). We study the process $pp\rightarrow h^* \rightarrow HH$ in the final states $b\bar b b \bar b$, $b\bar bγγ$, and multi-leptons. We find that at the HL-LHC these modes could be sensitive to masses of the additional neutral scalars in the range $130\mbox{ GeV} \lesssim m_H \lesssim 290\mbox{ GeV}$.
The exotic decay modes of non-Standard Model Higgs bosons are efficient in probing the hierarchical Two Higgs Doublet Models (2HDM). In particular, the decay mode $H^\pm\to HW^\pm$ serves as a powerful channel in searching for charged Higgses. In this paper, we analyzed the reach for $H^\pm\to HW^\pm \to t\bar{t}W$ at a 100 TeV $pp$ collider, and showed that it extends the reach of the previously studied $ττW$ final states once above the top threshold. Top tagging technique is used, in combination with the boosted decision tree classifier. Almost the entire hierarchical Type-II 2HDM parameter …
Probing the Exotic Particle Content Beyond the Standard Model
我们探讨可能的奇异粒子的内容超出了标准模型，通过检查所有的标量双线性组合。我们对这些奇异标量场进行了分类，并表明，如果不抑制（A）它们与已知夸克和轻子的Yukawa耦合，以及（B）它们之间的三线性耦合，大多数标量场已经被限制为非常重，因为没有观测到质子衰变和中子-反中子振荡，$K^0 - \bar {K^0}$，$D^0 - \bar {D^0}$和$B_d^0 - \bar {B_d^0}$混合很小，以及宇宙的非零重子不对称性的要求。另一方面，假设（B）在许多模型中可能会自然地被违反，特别是在超对称性中，因此某些奇异标量的质量可以低于几TeV，并且可以在计划中的未来强子对撞机中容易地检测到。特别是，像$\bar p p \to tt,\bar t c$和$p p \to t t, b b$这样的独特过程的大截面将分别在费米实验室的Tevatron和欧洲核子研究中心的LHC上被预期。
New $U(1)$ gauge theories involving Standard Model (SM) fermions typically require additional electroweak fermions for anomaly cancellation. We study the non-decoupling properties of these new fermions, called anomalons, in the $Z-Z'-γ$ vertex function, reviewing the connection between the full model and the effective Wess-Zumino operator. We calculate the exotic $Z \to Z' γ$ decay width in $U(1)_{B-L}$ and $U(1)_B$ models, where $B$ and $L$ denote the SM baryon and lepton number symmetries. For $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge symmetry, each generation of SM fermions is anomaly free and the exotic $Z \to Z…
In this work we investigate the possibility of the formation of states from the dynamics involved in the $D^*D^*D^*$ system by considering that two $D^*$'s generate a $J^P=1^+$ bound state, with isospin 0, which has been predicted in an earlier theoretical work. We solve the Faddeev equations for this system within the fixed center approximation and find the existence of $J^P=0^-$, $1^-$ and $2^-$ states with charm $3$, isospin $1/2$, masses $\sim 6000$ MeV, which are manifestly exotic hadrons, i.e., with a multiquark inner structure.
We study the search potential of heavy triplet leptons in Type III Seesaw mechanism at future high-energy and high-luminosity muon colliders. The impact of up-to-date neutrino oscillation results is taken into account on neutrino parameters and the consequent decay patterns of heavy leptons in Type III Seesaw. The three heavy leptons in the Casas-Ibarra parametrization with diagonal unity matrix are distinguishable in their decay modes. We consider the pair production of charged triplet leptons $E^+ E^-$ through both $μ^+μ^-$ annihilation and vector boson fusion (VBF) processes. The leading-or…
Future $c$-$τ$ factories are natural places to study extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) with new long-lived feebly interacting particles light enough to be produced in electron-positron collisions. We investigate prospects of these machines in exploring such extensions emphasizing the role of polarized beams in getting rid of the SM irreducible background for the missing energy signature. We illustrate this on example of $c$-$τ$ project in Novosibirsk, where the electron beam is designed to be polarized to achieve much higher sensitivity to hadronic resonances and $τ$-le…
In this paper, we study the triple top quark production at the future high-energy proton-proton colliders to probe the four-fermion interactions involving three top quarks. We employ the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to find the upper limits at $95\%$ CL on the Wilson coefficients of these kinds of four-fermion operators. We consider a detailed analysis with a unique signal signature of two same-sign leptons. A full simulation chain includes all the relevant backgrounds, realistic detector simulations and a cut-based technique are taken into account. This study is presented for…
An essential goal of the Higgs physics program at the LHC and beyond is to explore the nature of the Higgs potential and shed light on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. An important class of models defining the strength and order of the electroweak phase transition is driven by the Higgs boson coupling to a light new state. This Snowmass white paper points out the existence of a region of parameter space where a strongly first order electroweak phase transition is compatible with exotic decays of the SM-like Higgs boson. A dedicated search for exotic Higgs decays can actively exp…
Probing the Effects of Dimension-eight Operators Describing Anomalous Neutral Triple Gauge Boson Interactions at FCC-hh
在未来的圆形强子对撞机（FCC-hh）质心能量为100 TeV的条件下，研究了在$pp\to l^-l^+γ$和$pp\to ν\bar νγ$中引起$Zγγ$和$ZγZ$顶点反常中性三重规范玻色子相互作用的八维算符效应.在分析中考虑了光子的横动量、$l^-l^+γ$的不变质量以及在$l^-l^+$静止坐标系中带电轻子的角分布和能量横截缺失（MET）。真实的探测器效果也包括在Delphes仿真中。在95% C. L.下获得的灵敏度极限对于$C_{\widetilde B W}/Λ^4$和$C_{B B}/Λ^4$偶联，分别是双轻子+光子通道中的$[-0.52;0.52] ([-0.40;0.40])$ TeV $^{-4}$，$[-0.43;0.43] ([-0.33;0.33])$ TeV $^{-4}$和MET+光子通道中的$[-0.11;0.11] ([-0.084;0.084])$ TeV $^{-4}$，$[-0.092;0.092] ([-0.072;0.072])$ TeV $^{-4}$，其中$L_{int}$ =1（3）ab $^{-1}$。
A simple scenario of long-lived dark matter is presented. Assuming lepton number $(L)$ conservation with Dirac neutrinos, the neutral component of an $SU(2)_L$ scalar triplet with $L=2$ is a suitable candidate, which decays to two neutrinos. Exotic leptons with $L=-1$ may also play a role, and act as anchors for small seesaw Dirac neutrino masses.
One of the main objectives of almost all future (lepton) colliders is to measure the self-coupling of triple Higgs in the Standard Model. By elongating the Standard Model's scalar sector, using incipient Higgs doublet along with a quadratic (Higgs) potential should reveal many incipient features of the model and the possibility of the emergence of additional Higgs self-couplings. The self-coupling of the Higgs boson helps in reconstructing the scalar potential. The main objective of this paper is to extract Higgs self-coupling by numerically analyzing several scattering processes governed by t…
Probing compressed triplet scalars with ISR jets and soft leptons at the LHC
Uppsala University（乌普萨拉大学）；Regional Centre for Accelerator-based Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute（哈立斯·钱德拉研究所加速器基础粒子物理区域中心）；Homi Bhabha National Institute（霍米·巴巴国立学院）；School of Physical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science（印度科学促进会科学院物理科学学院）；Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata（印度科学教育与研究大学加尔各答分校物理科学系）；Department of Physics, Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology（巴拉特工程技术学院物理系）
We study the tagging of Higgs exotic decay signals using different types of deep neural networks (DNNs), focusing on the $W^\pm h$ associated production channel followed by Higgs decaying into $n$ $b$-quarks with $n=4$, 6 and 8. All the Higgs decay products are collected into a fat-jet, to which we apply further selection using the DNNs. Three kinds of DNNs are considered, namely convolutional neural network (CNN), recursive neural network (RecNN) and particle flow network (PFN). The PFN can achieve the best performance because its structure allows enfolding more information in addition to the…
Measuring the triple Higgs coupling is a crucial task in the LHC and future collider experiments. We apply the Message Passing Neural Network (MPNN) to the study of the non-resonant Higgs pair production process $pp \to hh$ in the final state with $2b + 2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ at the LHC. Although the MPNN can improve the signal significance, it is still challenging to observe such a process at the LHC. We find that a $2σ$ upper bound (including a 10\% systematic uncertainty) on the production cross section of the Higgs pair is 3.7 times the predicted SM cross section at the LHC with the…
We investigate the physics case for a dedicated trigger on a low mass, hadronic displaced vertex at the high luminosity LHC, relying on the CMS phase II track trigger. We estimate the trigger efficiency with a simplified simulation of the CMS track trigger and show that the L1 trigger rate from fake vertices, B meson decays and secondary interactions with the detector material can likely be brought down to the kHz level with a minimal set of cuts. While it would with any doubt be a severe experimental challenge to implement, we conclude that a displaced vertex trigger could open qualitatively …
