Flavor Changing Heavy Higgs Interactions with Leptons at Hadron Colliders

In a general two Higgs doublet model, we study flavor changing neutral Higgs (FCNH) decays into leptons at hadron colliders, $pp to phi^0 to tau^mpmu^pm +X$, where $phi^0$ could be a CP-even scalar ($h^0$, $H^0$) or a CP-odd pseudoscalar ($A^0$). The light Higgs boson $h^0$ is found to resemble closely the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. In the alignment limit of $cos(beta-alpha) cong 0$ for $h^0$--$H^0$ mixing, FCNH couplings of $h^0$ are naturally suppressed, but such couplings of the heavier $H^0, A^0$ are sustained by $sin(beta-alpha) simeq 1$. We evaluate physics backgrounds from dominant processes with realistic acceptance cuts and tagging efficiencies. We find promising results for $sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV, which we extend further to $sqrt{s} = 27$ TeV and 100 TeV future pp colliders.