Enhancing $t\bar{t}hh$ production through CP-violating top-Higgs interaction at the LHC, ILC and a 100 TeV collider

Abstract

The measurement of Higgs self-coupling is one of the most crucial physics goals at the future colliders. At the LHC, the di-Higgs production is a main way to measure the Higgs trilinear coupling. As a complementary to the di-Higgs production, $t\bar{t}hh$ process may open a new avenue to measure di-Higgs physics at the LHC and a future 100 TeV $pp$ collider or a high energy $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider since the extra $t\bar{t}$ in the final states may efficiently suppress the backgrounds. However, such a kind of process is also controlled by the top-Higgs coupling. In this work, we investigate the impact of CP-violating top-Higgs coupling on $t\bar{t}hh$ production at the LHC, ILC and a 100 TeV hadron collider under the current Higgs data. Within 2$\ddot{I}ƒ$ Higgs data allowed parameter region, we find that the cross section of $t\bar{t}hh$ at the LHC-14 TeV, ILC-1 TeV and VHE-LHC/SPPC-100 TeV can be enhanced up to 2.1 times the SM predictions. The future precise measurement of Higgs coupling will reveal the nature of top-Higgs interaction and improve the sensitivity of the determination of Higgs self-coupling through $t\bar{t}hh$ production.

Discussions and figures added, Version accepted by JHEP