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In this study, we investigate observability of the neutral scalar ($H$) and pseudoscalar ($A$) Higgs bosons in the framework of the Type-I 2HDM at SM-like scenario at a linear collider operating at $sqrt s=$ 500 and 1000 GeV. The signal process chain $e^- e^+ rightarrow A H rightarrow ZHHrightarrow jj bbar{b}bbar{b}$ where $jj$ is a di-jet resulting from the $Z$ boson decay and $bbar{b}$ is a $b$ quark pair, is assumed and several benchmark scenarios with different mass hypotheses are studied. The assumed signal process is mainly motivated by the possible enhancements the decay modes $Arightarrow ZH$ and $Hrightarrow bbar{b}$ may receive in the Type-I. Event generation is performed for the assumed scenarios separately and the beamstrahlung effects are taken into account. The detector response is simulated based on the SiD detector at the ILC and the simulated events are analyzed to obtain candidate mass distributions of the Higgs bosons. According to the results, the top quark pair production process has the most contribution to the total background and is, however, well-controlled. Results indicate that, in all of the considered scenarios, both of the Higgs bosons $H$ and $A$ are observable with signals exceeding $5sigma$ with possibility of mass measurement. To be specific, at $sqrt s=500$ GeV, the region of parameter space with $m_H=150$ GeV and $200leq m_A leq 250$ GeV is observable at the integrated luminosity of 500 $fb^{-1}$. Also, at $sqrt s=1000$ GeV, the region with $150leq m_H leq 250$ GeV and $200leq m_A leq 330$ GeV with a mass splitting of 50-100 GeV between the $H$ and $A$ Higgs bosons is observable at the same integrated luminosity.
Doubly-charged Higgs bosons ($Delta^{--}/Delta^{++}$) appear in several extensions to the Standard Model and can be relatively light. We review the theoretical motivation for these states and present a study of the discovery reach in future runs of the Fermilab Tevatron for pair-produced doubly-charged Higgs bosons decaying to like-sign lepton pairs. We also comment on the discovery potential at other future colliders.
Inclusive Higgs boson pair production through the mechanism of gauge boson fusion e^{+} e^{-} -> V* V* -> h h + X (V=W,Z) in the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM), with h=h^0,H^0,A^0,H^{pm}, is analyzed at order alpha^4_{ew} in the linear colliders ILC and CLIC. This kind of processes is highly sensitive to the trilinear Higgs (3H) boson self-interactions and hence can be a true keystone in the reconstruction of the Higgs potential. For example, in the ILC at 1 TeV, the most favorable scenarios yield cross-sections up to roughly 1 pb, thus entailing 10^5 events per 100 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity, whilst remaining fully consistent with the perturbativity and unitarity bounds on the 3H couplings, the electroweak precision data and the constraints from BR(b->sgamma). Comparing with other competing mechanisms, we conclude that the Higgs boson-pair events could be the dominant signature for Higgs-boson production in the TeV-class linear colliders for a wide region of the 2HDM parameter space, with no counterpart in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Owing to the extremely clean environment of these colliders, inclusive 2H events should allow a comfortable tagging and might therefore open privileged new vistas into the structure of the Higgs potential.
Future $gammagamma$ colliders allow the production of the heavy neutral MSSM Higgs bosons $H$ and $A$ as single resonances. The prospects of finding these particles in the $bbar{b}$ and the neutralino-pair final states have been analysed. The $H,A$ bosons can be discovered for medium values of $tanbeta$ with masses up to 70--80% of the initial $e^pm e^-$ c.m. energy. This production mode thus covers parts of the supersymmetric parameter space that are not accessible at other colliders.
We investigate the possibility of detecting the Higgs bosons predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model $(h^0, H^0, A^0, H^pm)$, with the reactions $e^{+}e^{-}to bbar b h^0 (H^0, A^0)$, and $e^+e^-to tau^-bar u_tau H^+, tau^+ u_tau H^-$, using the helicity formalism. We analyze the region of parameter space $(m_{A^0}-tanbeta)$ where $h^0, H^0, A^0$ and $H^pm$ could be detected in the limit when $tanbeta$ is large. The numerical computation is done considering two stages of a possible Next Linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collider: the first with $sqrt{s}=500$ $GeV$ and design luminosity 50 $fb^{-1}$, and the second with $sqrt{s}=1$ $TeV$ and luminosity 100-200 $fb^{-1}$.
In the framework of the $mathcal{CP}$ conserving Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), type I and II, we study the triple Higgs couplings with at least one light $h$ Higgs boson that is identified by the 125 GeV Higgs boson. We define benchmark planes that exhibit large values of triple Higgs couplings, while being in agreement with all experimental and theoretical constraints. Finally, we analyze the impact of the triple Higgs couplings on the production cross section of two neutral Higgs bosons in two channels, $sigma(e^+e^-to h_i h_j Z)$ and $sigma(e^+e^- to h_i h_j ubar{ u})$ with $h_i h_j = hh, hH, HH, AA$. We show that the triple Higgs couplings have an important impact on these $e^+e^-$ production cross sections.