The second lightest CP-even Higgs boson signals in the NMSSM at the LHC

Abstract

We study the signal rates of the second lightest CP-even Higgs boson, $h_2$, of the NMSSM produced in gluon fusion, in association with bottom quarks and in association with top quarks, which is not the SM-like Higgs boson, at the LHC. We evaluate the production rates of the $h_2$ in the SM fermionic and bosonic final states in addition to $a_1{a}_1$, $h_1{h}_1$ and $Z{a}_1$ final states. It is observed that the size of the signal rates in some regions of the NMSSM parameter space is quite large and that could help extracting the $h_2$ signals at the LHC through a variety of decay channels.

arXiv comment12 pages, 6 figures, 37 subfigures

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