LHC discovery potential of a leptophilic Higgs boson

Shufang Su, Brooks Thomas

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Abstract

In this work, we examine a two-Higgs-doublet extension of the standard model in which one Higgs doublet is responsible for giving mass to both up- and down-type quarks, while a separate doublet is responsible for giving mass to leptons. We examine both the theoretical and experimental constraints on the model and show that large regions of parameter space are allowed by these constraints in which the effective couplings between the lightest neutral Higgs scalar and the standard-model leptons are substantially enhanced. We investigate the collider phenomenology of such a "leptophilic" two-Higgs-doublet model and show that in cases where the low-energy spectrum contains only one light, CP-even scalar, a variety of collider processes essentially irrelevant for the discovery of a standard model Higgs boson (specifically those in which the Higgs boson decays directly into a charged-lepton pair) can contribute significantly to the discovery potential of a light-to-intermediate-mass (mh 140GeV) Higgs boson at the LHC.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number095014
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume79
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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