Probing the decay A⁰→ h⁰ Z^(*) in Two-Higgs-Doublet Models in the inverted hierarchy scenario at the Large Hadron Collider

2024/07/19 by Akeroyd, A. G., Alanazi, S., Moretti, Stefano
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.08314

Abstract

Searches are being carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the decay of the CP-odd scalar (A⁰) in Two-Higgs-Doublet Models (2HDMs) with Natural Flavour Conservation (NFC) in the channel A⁰→ h⁰ Z, where h⁰ is either the discovered 125 GeV Higgs boson or is an undiscovered CP-even scalar with a mass below 125 GeV. The latter possibility is called the "inverted hierarchy scenario" (IH) and would provide the opportunity of simultaneous discovery of two scalars. In both searches the selection cuts are optimised for the case of an on-shell Z boson. For the case of the Z boson being off-shell (denoted by Z^*, for which m_A⁰ - m_h⁰

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