Heavy Higgs Bosons at the LHC Upgrade

Abstract

We evaluate the discovery potential for the heavy Higgs bosons at the LHC energy upgrade with $\sqrt{s}=27$ TeV. We take degenerate mass spectrum and assume near the alignment limit in the Type-II Two Higgs Doublet Model for illustration. We explore the observability of the heavy neutral Higgs bosons by examining the leading decay channel $H^0/A^0\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ and the clean signals from $H^0\to W^{+}{W}^{-},ZZ$ via gluon-gluon fusion production. The associated production of a top quark and a charged Higgs boson via $gb\to t{H}^{\pm }$ is adopted to predict the discovery potential of heavy charged Higgses. We also emphasize the potential importance of the electroweak production of Higgs boson pairs, i.e. $pp\to W^{\ast }\to H^{\pm }{A}^0$ and $pp\to Z^{\ast }/{\gamma }^{\ast }\to H^{+}{H}^{-}$. They are only governed by pure electroweak gauge couplings and can provide complementary information to the conventional signals in the determination of the nature of the Higgs sector.

30 pages, 14 figures, 8 tables

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