Higgs pair signal enhanced in the 2HDM with two degenerate 125 GeV Higgs bosons

Abstract

We discuss a scenario of the type-II 2HDM in which the $b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ rate of the Higgs pair production is enhanced due to the two nearly degenerate 125 GeV Higgs bosons ($h$, $H$). Considering various theoretical and experimental constraints, we figure out the allowed ranges of the trilinear couplings of these two Higgs bosons and calculate the signal rate of $b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ from the productions of Higgs pairs ($hh$, $hH$, $HH$) at the LHC. We find that in the allowed parameter space some trilinear Higgs couplings can be larger than the SM value by an order and the production rate of $b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ can be greatly enhanced. We also consider a "decoupling" benchmark point where the light CP-even Higgs has a SM-like cubic self-coupling while other trilinear couplings are very small. With a detailed simulation on the $b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ signal and backgrounds, we find that in such a "decoupling" scenario the $hh$ and $hH$ channels can jointly enhance the statistical significance to 5$\sigma$ at 14 TeV LHC with an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb${}^{-1}$.

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