SHEP-09-03
Neutral Higgs boson pair production in photon-photon
annihilation in the Two Higgs Doublet Model
arXiv:0901.3380v2 [hep-ph] 30 Apr 2009
Abdesslam Arhrib1,2 , Rachid Benbrik2,3,4 , Chuan-Hung Chen3,4 and Rui Santos5
1
Département de Mathématique, Faculté des Sciences and Techniques,
Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, B. 416, Tangier, Morocco.
2
3
LPHEA, Faculté des Sciences-Semlalia, B.P. 2390 Marrakesh, Morocco.
Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 701, Taiwan.
4
National Center for Theoretical Physics, Taiwan 701, Taiwan. and
5
NExT Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
(Dated: April 30, 2009)
Abstract
We study double Higgs production in photon-photon collisions as a probe of the new dynamics
of Higgs interactions in the framework of two Higgs Doublet Models. We analyze neutral Higgs
bosons production and decay in the fusion processes, γγ → Si Sj , Si = h0 , H 0 , A0 , and show that
both h0 h0 and A0 A0 production can be enhanced by threshold effects in the region Eγγ ≈ 2mH± .
Resonant effects due to the heavy Higgs, H 0 , can also play a role in the cross section enhancement
when it is allowed to decay to two light CP-even h0 or to two light CP-odd A0 scalars. We have
scanned the allowed parameter space of the Two Higgs Doublet Model and found a vast region of
the parameter space where the cross section is two orders of magnitude above the Standard Model
cross section. We further show that the Standard Model experimental analysis can be used to
discover or to constraint the two Higgs doublet model parameter space.
PACS numbers: 12.60.Fr, 14.80.Cp
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I.
INTRODUCTION
The search for Higgs bosons is the prime task of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
with operation scheduled now for 2009. With the LHC guidance, the International e+ e−
Linear Collider (ILC), which is currently being designed, will further improve our knowledge
of the Higgs sector if that is how Nature decided to create mass. It was demonstrated in
Ref. [1] that physics at the LHC and at the ILC will be complementary to each other in
many respects. In many cases, the ILC can significantly improve the LHC measurements. If
a Higgs boson is discovered, it will be crucial to determine its couplings with high accuracy,
to understand the so-called mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking [2]. The high
resolution profile determination of a light Higgs boson (mass, couplings, self couplings, etc.)
can be carried out at the ILC, where clear signals of Higgs events are expected with backgrounds that can be reduced to a manageable level. This is exactly the case of processes such
as e+ e− → γγ → Si Sj where Si = h0 , H 0 , A0 . This fusion process can produce a Standard
Model (SM) Higgs boson or one predicted by the various extensions of the SM, such as the
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) or Two Higgs Doublet Models (2HDM).
√
According to its Reference Design Report [3], the ILC will run at an energy of s = 500
GeV with a total luminosity of L = 500f b−1 within the first four years of operation and
√
L = 1000f b−1 during the first phase of operation with s = 500 GeV . An e+ e− collider
is uniquely capable of operation at a series of energies near the threshold of a new physics
process. This is an extremely powerful tool for precision measurements of particle masses
and unambiguous particle spin determination. Various ILC physics studies, indicate that
√
a s = 500 GeV collider can have a great impact on understanding new physics at the
√
T eV scale. An energy upgrade up to s ∼ 1 T eV would probably open the doors to even
greater discoveries. Another very unique feature of the ILC is that it can accommodate a
γγ collider with the photon beams generated by using the Compton backscattering of the
initial electron and laser beams [4]. In this case, the energy and luminosity of the photon
beams would be of the same order of magnitude of the original electron beams. As the set
of final states at a photon collider is much richer than that in the e+ e− mode, it would open
a wider window to probe new physics beyond the SM.
Since photons couple directly to all fundamental fields carrying electromagnetic charge,
γγ collisions provide a comprehensive means of exploring virtual aspect of the SM and its
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extensions [5]. The production mechanism in hadron and e+ e− machines are often more
complex and model-dependent. Thus, a γγ collider is much more sensitive to new physics
even at higher mass scales [6].
The primary mechanism of neutral Higgs boson production in γγ collisions is γγ →
(h0 , H 0, A0 ) [7, 8, 9, 10], but in order to explore the triple and quartic Higgs couplings
at future high energy colliders, it is necessary to study the Higgs boson pair production
process. The triple Higgs couplings of the 2HDM have been extensively studied at e+ e−
linear colliders [11] and shown to provide an opportunity to measure those couplings. At
photon-photon colliders, the cross section for neutral Higgs boson pair production has been
calculated in [12, 13] in the SM and found to be rather small. In the 2HDM, the process
γγ → h0 h0 has been computed in the decoupling limit in [14, 15]. They found that the cross
section can be substantially enhanced in the 2HDM and that the number of events expected
at the Photon Collider will allow a determination or exclusion of some of the parameter
space in the 2HDM potential.
In the MSSM, various studies for Higgs pair production at a photon collider have
been performed.
The process γγ → h0 h0 was studied in [16] while reactions γγ →
h0 H 0 , h0 A0 , H 0 H 0 , H 0 A0 were determined in [17]. Process γγ → A0 A0 was calculated for
the MSSM [18, 19] and shown to have a cross section of the order of 0.1 − 0.2 f b for a vast
range of the photon-photon center of mass energy.
In this paper, we present a complete calculation of pair production of all neutral Higgs
bosons at the one loop level in the 2HDM. We study the Higgs self couplings effects on
the γγ → h0 h0 and γγ → A0 A0 cross sections and briefly comment on the γγ → h0 A0 ,
γγ → h0 H 0 , γγ → H 0 A0 and γγ → H 0 H 0 production modes. This exhausts all possible
neutral scalar production processes in the 2HDM. A measurement of these processes can shed
some light on the 2HDM triple Higgs couplings. However, even if the situation regarding
a measurement of the vertex is not clear because no peak is detected, a vast region of the
2HDM parameter space will be excluded. The scalars will be detected via similar final states
because both the h0 and the A0 , when not too heavy, decay predominantly into fermions.
In this regard, the knowledge of their exact total cross section and angular distributions
may be helpful in order to distinguish between CP-even and CP-odd scalars. Moreover,
it is well-known that in the 2HDM, both the CP-even h0 and the CP-odd pseudo-scalar
A0 can be rather light [20]. In fact, the bounds on the h0 and A0 masses originate from
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the e+ e− → h0 Z and e+ e− → h0 A0 production processes with the Higgs decaying to some
combination of jets (mainly b jets) and τ leptons. The production process e+ e− → h0 Z is
proportional to sin2 (α − β) and this is the reason why LEP does not limit the mass of a
light Higgs h0 for sin(α − β) = 0.1. For sin(α − β) = 0.3 the bound is of the order of 80
GeV [21]. The pseudo-scalar mass is only limited by the results on e+ e− → h0 A0 . However,
if the sum of the masses is above the LEP energy limit, again no bound applies.
A very interesting feature of γγ → A0 A0 is that a light A0 can easily emerge in the Nextto Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) and therefore comparison between
models will certainly prove useful. In addition, we also take into account in our calculation
the perturbativity, unitarity as well as vacuum stability constraints on the various parameters
in the Higgs potential. We will show that after imposing those constraints, cross sections
are still large enough, in the hundred of fempto-barn (f b) region in some cases, to probe the
2HDM scalar sector. We will also study some of these processes in the decoupling limit and
in the fermiophobic limit of the so-called type-I 2HDM.
The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we review the 2HDM potential we
will be using, give the analytical expressions for the triple and quartic Higgs couplings and
list the theoretical constraints on the 2HDM scalar potential such as unitarity and vacuum
stability. In Section III, we evaluate the double Higgs production cross section, γγ → Si Sj
with Si,j = H 0 , h0 , A0 , in the general 2HDM paying special attention to γγ → h0 h0 and
γγ → A0 A0 . We then proceed to Section IV where we present our numerical results for the
general 2HDM and for two limiting cases: the decoupling limit and the fermiophobic limit.
In Section V we discuss the final states in the different 2HDM scenarios. Our findings are
summarized in Section VI.
II.
REVIEW OF THE TWO HIGGS DOUBLET MODEL
A.
The Two Higgs doublet model
Two Higgs doublet models are some of the most well studied extensions of the Standard
Model. Various motivations for adding a second Higgs doublet to the Standard Model have
been advocated in the literature [22, 23]. There are several types of 2HDM. While the
coupling to gauge bosons is universal, there are many ways to couple the Higgs doublets to
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matter fields. Assuming natural flavor conservation [24] there are four ways to couple the
Higgs to the fermions [25]. The most popular models are the type-I and the type-II models,
denoted by 2HDM-I and 2HDM-II, respectively. In 2HDM-I, the quarks and leptons couple
only to one of the two Higgs doublet which is exactly what happens in the SM. In 2HDM-II,
one of the 2HDM fields couples only to down-type fermions (down-type quarks and charged
leptons) and the other one only couples to up-type fermions in order to avoid the problem
of flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC’s) at tree-level. There are two additional models
less discussed in the literature: model III in which one of the doublets couples to all quarks
and the other couples to all leptons and the type IV model is instead built such that one
doublet couples to up-type quarks and to leptons and the other couples to down-type quarks.
There is a class of models sometimes called also type-III and denoted as 2HDM-III where
FCNC are induced at tree-level [26] which can lead to fine-tuning issues. The discussion of
the different models is not crucial as the production processes discussed here have a very
mild dependence on the diagrams with fermion loops. It can however become relevant when
discussing the different final states. When the Higgs decays predominantly to fermions, the
relative size of the h0 → bb̄, h0 → cc̄ and h0 → τ + τ − branching ratios do depend on the
model chosen regarding the Yukawa sector. Finally, we note that a 2HDM-I can lead to a
fermiophobic Higgs boson h0 [27] with suppressed couplings to the fermions (exactly zero at
tree-level). In this case, the dominant decay mode for the lightest Higgs boson is h0 → γγ
or h0 → W + W − , depending on its mass. No other version of the 2HDM possesses such a
feature.
The most general scalar potential, renormalizable, CP-conserving, invariant under
SU(2)L ⊗ U(1)Y can be written as [22]:
1
1
V (Φ1 , Φ2 ) = m21 Φ†1 Φ1 + m22 Φ†2 Φ2 + (m212 Φ†1 Φ2 + h.c) + λ1 (Φ†1 Φ1 )2 + λ2 (Φ†2 Φ2 )2
2
2
1
†
†
†
†
†
2
(1)
+ λ3 (Φ1 Φ1 )(Φ2 Φ2 ) + λ4 (Φ1 Φ2 )(Φ2 Φ1 ) + λ5 [(Φ1 Φ2 ) + h.c.] ,
2
where Φ1 and Φ2 have weak hypercharge Y = 1 and vacuum expectation values (VEV’s) v1
and v2 , respectively, and λi and m212 are real-valued parameters. Note that this potential
violates the Z2 discrete symmetry Φ1 → Φ1 , Φ2 → −Φ2 softly by the dimension-two term
m212 (Φ†1 Φ2 ), and has the same general structure as the scalar potential in the MSSM. From
hermeticity of the potential, one concludes that m212 must be real valued, so it can take both
positive and negative values.
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After electroweak symmetry breaking, the W ± and Z gauge bosons acquire their masses.
Explicitly, three of the eight degrees of freedom in the two Higgs doublets correspond to the
three Goldstone bosons (G± , G0 ) and the remaining five become physical Higgs bosons: h0 ,
H 0 (CP-even), A0 (CP-odd), and H ± with masses mh0 , mH 0 , mA0 , and mH ± , respectively.
The potential in Eq. (1) has ten independent parameters (including v1 and v2 ). The
parameters m1 and m2 are fixed by the minimization conditions. The combination v 2 =
√
v12 + v22 is fixed as usual by the electroweak breaking scale through v 2 = (2 2GF )−1 . We
are thus left with seven independent parameters; namely (λi )i=1,...,5 , m12 , and tan β ≡ v2 /v1 .
Equivalently, we can take instead
mh0
,
mH 0
,
mA0
,
mH ±
,
tan β
,
α and m12 ,
(2)
as the seven independent parameters. The angle β diagonalizes both the CP-odd and charged
scalar mass matrices and α diagonalizes the CP-even mass matrix. One can easily relate the
physical scalar masses and mixing angles from Eq. (1) to the potential parameters, λi , m12
and vi , and invert them to obtain λi in terms of the physical scalar masses, tan β, α, and
m12 [28, 29].
B.
Theoretical and experimental constraints
There are several important constraints on the 2HDM parameters imposed by experimental data. In our analysis we take them all into account when the independent parameters
are varied.
First, the LEP direct search result in the lower bounds mh0 > 114 GeV for a SM-like
Higgs and mA0 ,H 0 ,H ± > 80-90 GeV for supersymmetric models in the case of the neutral
scalars and for more general models in the case of the charged Higgs (see [21] for details). As
stated in the introduction, the bound on the lightest CP-even Higgs heavily depends on the
value of sin(α − β). In a general 2HDM all bounds on the Higgs masses, with the exception
of the charged Higgs, can be avoided with a suitable choice of the angles and m12 .
Second, the extra contributions to the δρ parameter from the Higgs scalars [30] should
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not exceed the current limit from precision measurements [21]: |δρ| <
∼ 10 . Such an extra
contribution to δρ vanishes in the limit mH ± = mA0 . To ensure that δρ is within the
allowed range, we demand either a small splitting between mH ± and mA0 or a combination
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of parameters that produces the same effect.
Third, the constraint from B → Xs γ branching ratio [31, 32] gives a lower bound on the
charged Higgs mass, mH ± >
∼ 295 GeV , in 2HDM-II. These bounds do not apply to model
type-I and therefore are not taken into account in the fermiophobic scenario. Recent data
from B → ℓν can also give a constraint on charged Higgs mass especially for large values of
tan β in 2HDM-II [33, 34].
Fourth, values of tan β smaller than ≈ 1 are disallowed both by the constraints coming
from Z → bb̄ and from Bq B̄q mixing [31].
Finally, we should take into account the theoretical constraints. Let us start by noting
that all 2HDM are protected against charge and CP-breaking [35]. We consider the perturbativity constraints on the λi as well as the vacuum stability conditions [36] that assure
that the potential is bounded from below. We require that all quartic couplings of the scalar
potential Eq. 1 remain perturbative by imposing |λi | ≤ 8π for all i. For the vacuum stability
conditions we use those from [36], which are given by:
λ1 > 0 ,
√
λ2 > 0 ,
λ1 λ2 + λ3 + min (0, λ4 − |λ5 |) > 0 .
(3)
The above perturbative constraints are slightly less constraining than the full set of unitarity
constraints [37, 38] established using the high energy approximation as well as the equivalence theorem. It turns out, that requiring only perturbativity constraints on the λ′ s could
lead to scalar particles having a decay width which could exceed their mass. The problem
is cured when we use the full set of perturbative unitarity conditions which are given by
|a± |, |b± |, |c± |, |d±|, |e1,2 |, |f± |, |g1,2| < 8π
(4)
with
a±
3
(λ1 + λ2 ) ±
=
2
s
4
(λ1 − λ2 )2 + (2λ3 + λ4 )2 ,
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(5)
q
1
(λ1 + λ2 ) ± (λ1 − λ2 )2 + 4λ24 ,
2
q
1
c± = d ± =
(λ1 + λ2 ) ± (λ1 − λ2 )2 + 4λ25 ,
2
e1 = (λ3 + 2λ4 − 3λ5 )
,
e2 = (λ3 − λ5 ) ,
(7)
f+ = (λ3 + 2λ4 + 3λ5 )
(9)
b± =
,
g1 = g2 = (λ3 + λ4 ) .
f− = (λ3 + λ5 ) ,
(6)
(8)
(10)
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These are very restrictive constraints on the allowed range of the parameter space. All values
presented in the plots are consistent with all theoretical and experimental bounds described
in this section.
III.
A.
γγ → Si Sj , Si,j = h0 , H 0 , A0 IN THE 2HDM
About the one-loop calculation
φ
(v1 )
φ
(v2 )
φ
(v3 )
φ
(v4 )
(v5 )
φ
(v6 )
(v7 )
(v8 )
(v9 )
(v10 )
φ
(v11 )
(v12 )
FIG. 1: Generic charged Higgs and gauge bosons vertex like Feynman diagrams for neutral Higgs
production γγ → Si Sj in 2HDM. In the figures φ = h0 or H 0 .
All processes γγ → Si Sj , Si,j = h0 , H 0 , A0 with neutral Higgs in the final state are
forbidden at tree-level and are mediated at one-loop level by vertex diagrams as well as
by box diagrams. All those processes are sensitive to virtual gauge bosons, fermions and
charged Higgs particles. We display in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 2 the generic Feynman diagrams
with charged scalar particles exchange that contribute to γγ → Si Sj processes. Note that
in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 2 we do not show the SM contribution with fermions and gauge bosons
exchange. We have checked that they are always negligible when compared to diagrams
with scalar exchange. The later comprise one-loop photon-photon fusion diagrams resulting
in φ = h0 or H 0 intermediate states, followed by the decay h0 , H 0 → Si Sj with Si,j = h0 , A0
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(b1 )
(b2 )
(b3 )
(b4 )
(b5 )
(b6 )
(b7 )
(b8 )
(b9 )
(b10 )
(b11 )
(b12 )
(b13 )
FIG. 2: Generic charged Higgs and gauge bosons box like Feynman diagrams to neutral Higgs
production γγ → Si Sj in 2HDM.
as shown in Fig. 1, v1→4 , v9 and v12 . This kind of topology is sensitive to the triple Higgs
couplings h0 Si Sj , H 0 Si Sj , h0 H + H − and H 0 H + H − . For the γγ → h0 A0 process, we have
diagrams like v1→4 , v9 and v12 but with φ = A0 and also the contribution from the vertices
with s-channel exchange of a Z boson v5→8 , v10 and v11 . Note that for topologies like v1→4 , v9
and v12 in Fig. 1 we have included the total width of the scalar particle φ in the calculation
of the corresponding amplitude.
For the production mode γγ → h0 h0 , the box contributions with virtual charged Higgs
exchange is sensitive to the triple Higgs coupling h0 H + H − . On the contrary, in the case of
the γγ → A0 A0 process and again due to the CP nature of the pseudo-scalar Higgs boson
A0 , it turns out that the box diagrams for γγ → A0 A0 are rather sensitive to the A0 H + G−
coupling which does not have neither a m12 nor a tan β dependence. As one can see from
Fig. 2 (diagrams (b1 ) and (b11 )), there are other topologies that contribute to γγ → h0 h0
and γγ → A0 A0 and which are sensitive to quartic couplings of the Higgs boson such as
h0 h0 H + H − and A0 A0 H + H − .
As stated before, we are mainly concerned with the production modes γγ → h0 h0 and
γγ → A0 A0 . We will briefly comment on the h0 A0 , H 0 A0 , h0 H 0 and H 0 H 0 production pro9
cesses. The one-loop amplitudes were generated and calculated with the packages FeynArts
[39] and FormCalc [40]. The scalar integrals were evaluated with LoopTools [41]. The numerical evaluations of the integration over 2 → 2 phase space is done by the help of CUBA
library [42]. A cut of approximately 6o relative to the beam axis was set on the scattering
angle in the forward and backward directions.
B.
Triple Higgs couplings
The above processes are sensitive to triple and quartic Higgs couplings. Below, we list
the relevant pure scalar couplings needed for our processes γγ → h0 h0 , A0 A0 , h0 A0 . In the
SM and in the general 2HDM these triple and quartic scalar couplings are given at tree-level
by
λSM
h0 h0 h0 =
λ2HDM
h0 h0 h0 =
λ2HDM
H 0H 0H 0 =
λ2HDM
H 0 h0 h0 =
λ2HDM
H 0 H 0 h0 =
λ2HDM
A0 A0 h 0 =
λ2HDM
A0 A0 H 0 =
λ2HDM
A 0 G0 h 0 =
λ2HDM
H ± H ∓ h0 =
λ2HDM
H±H∓H0 =
λ2HDM
h0 h0 H − H + =
−3g 2 m2h0
−3gm2h0
(11)
, λSM
h0 h0 h0 h0 =
2mW
4m2W
−3g
2
2
3
3
2
+
c
c
m
(12)
(c
c
−
s
s
)s
m
β α
β α 2β h0
β−α β+α 12
mW s22β
−3g
2
2
3
3
2
(13)
(cβ cα − sβ sα )s2β mH 0 + sβ−α sβ+α m12
mW s22β
1 gcβ−α
2
2
2
(14)
(2mh0 + mH 0 )s2α s2β + (3s2α − s2β )m12
−
2 sW s22β
1 gsβ−α
2
2
2
(15)
(mh0 + 2mH 0 )s2α s2β + (3s2α + s2β )m12
2 mW s22β
−g
2
2
2
3
3
2
(cα cβ − sα sβ )s2β mh0 + cβ+α m12 + s2β sβ−α mA0
(16)
mW s22β
−g
3
3
2
2
2
2
(sα cβ + cα sβ )s2β mH 0 + sβ+α m12 + s2β cβ−α mA0
(17)
mW s22β
1 gcβ−α
1 gsβ−α
2
2
2HDM
2
2
mA0 − mh0
, λ A 0 G0 H 0 = −
mA0 − mH 0
(18)
2 mW
2 mW
g
(sα s3β − cα c3β )s2β m2h0 − cβ+α m212 − s22β sβ−α m2H ±
(19)
mW s2β
−g
3
3
2
2
2
2
(sα cβ + sα sβ )s2β mH 0 + sβ+α m12 + s2β cβ−α mH ±
(20)
mW s2β
2
g
−
2m2H ± s22β s2β−α + m2h0 (2cα+β + s2α sβ−α )(2cα+β − s2β sβ−α )
2mW s2β
− cβ−α s2α (cβ−α s2β − 2sα+β )m2H 0 + m212 (c2α+β + c22β c2β−α ) .
λ2HDM
A0 A0 H − H +
= −
g
2mW s2β
2
m2H 0 (cβ−α s2β − 2sβ+α )2 + m2h0 (2cβ+α − s2β sβ−α )2
10
(21)
(22)
+ 2m212 c22β
where g = e/ sin θW is the SU(2)L gauge coupling constant. Here we use the short-hand
notations sθ and cθ to denote, respectively, sin θ and cos θ where θ stands for α or β. All
these triple Higgs couplings have a strong dependence on the physical masses mφ (φ =
h0 , H 0, H ± , A0 ), on the mixing angles α and β and finally on the m12 parameter which
parameterizes the soft breaking of the Z2 symmetry.
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700
σ2HDM > 100 σSM
3
50σSM< σ2HDM < 100 σSM
2
σ2HDM > 100 σSM
mH0 (GeV)
tanβ
50σSM< σ2HDM < 100 σSM
600
σSM< σ2HDM < 50 σSM
4
σSM< σ2HDM < 50 σSM
500
400
300
200
1
0
100
200
300
m12 (GeV)
400
0
100
200
300
m12 (GeV)
400
FIG. 3: The allowed regions for σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) in two Higgs doublet model. We have chosen
mh0 = 115 GeV, mA0 = 270 GeV and mH ± = 350 GeV. On the left panel, mH 0 = 2mh0 ,
Eγγ = 500 GeV, −1 ≤ sin α ≤ 1 and 1 <
∼ tan β <
∼ 10. On the right panel, tan β = 1, sin α = −0.9
and Eγγ = 800 GeV
IV.
A.
NUMERICAL RESULTS
The general 2HDM
Before discussing our numerical results, it is worth pointing out that the following results
are valid for all Yukawa type of couplings that do not generate FCNC at tree-level, as long as
tan β remains small (tan β <
∼ 7 in the regions probed), as imposed by unitarity constraints.
Moreover, as we will see later, the 2HDM contribution is dominated by scalar loops rather
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than by fermion loops and the former are Yukawa model independent. Since data can easily
accommodate light h0 and A0 scalars [20] in the 2HDM, we will concentrate hereafter on the
h0 h0 , A0 A0 and h0 A0 production modes. In our numerical analysis, we will use: mt = 171
GeV, mb = 4.7 GeV, mZ = 91.187 GeV, mW = 80.45 GeV, the Weinberg angle sW is
defined in the on-shell scheme as s2W = 1 − m2W /m2Z . For the fine structure constant we use
α = 1/137.035989.
We first note that we have reproduced the SM result for γγ → H 0 H 0 and found perfect
agreement with [12, 13]. In the 2HDM case, our result agree with [14] while we have a full
agreement with [15] if we take α = 1/128. The very detailed parton-level study [13] conclude
that for a 350 GeV center of mass energy photon collider and a Higgs mass of 120 GeV , an
integrated γγ luminosity of 450 f b−1 would be needed to exclude a zero trilinear Higgs boson
self-coupling at the 5σ level, considering only the statistical uncertainty. If one assumes the
luminosity based on the TESLA design report [43] we conclude that this is an attainable
luminosity in approximately one year and certainly in less than two years. Therefore, we have
decided to perform a comprehensive scan of the parameter space of the 2HDM looking for
regions where the 2HDM dominate over the SM, that is, σ2HDM (γγ → h0 h0 ) > σSM (γγ →
h0 h0 ), together with perturbativity, unitarity and vacuum stability constraints on λi . The
results of this scan are shown in Fig. 3. In this scan we choose the charged Higgs mass to be
350 GeV, in order to fulfill the b → sγ constraint in all Yukawa type models. From the left
scan, it comes out a correlation between tan β and m12 . In order to have m12 large, unitarity
constraints require tan β to be rather small. It is clear that in order to have a 2HDM cross
section for γγ → h0 h0 much larger than the corresponding SM one, a large m12 is needed
together with a small value for tan β ≈ 1, 1.5. With the set of parameters fixed, unitarity
constraints forces tan β <
∼ 5 in the scanned region. The left scan shows that as tan β grows
larger and larger, only smaller values of m12 are allowed. In the right panel of Fig. 3 one
can see that a quite large range of mH is allowed by perturbativity, unitarity and vacuum
stability constrains. For large m12 >
∼ 260 GeV and for all values of mH <
∼ 500 GeV, the
2HDM cross section for γγ → h0 h0 can be 50 times larger than the corresponding SM cross
section. From the scans presented, we conclude that for a large m12 and even if tan β ≈ O(1)
we have a significant slice of the parameter space where σ2HDM (γγ → h0 h0 ) can be much
larger than the corresponding SM cross section while complying with all constraints both
experimental and theoretical.
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-1
-1
10
10
Total
Total
0 0
γγ→h h
-2
0 0
10
10
(+ +)
-3
10
σ (pb)
σ (pb)
γγ→A A
-2
SM
-4
(+ +)
-3
10
(+ -)
10
-4
(+ -)
10
-5
10
-6
-5
10
10
400
600
800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
400
600
800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
FIG. 4: SM and 2HDM total cross sections σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) (left) and σ(γγ → A0 A0 ) (right) as a
function of the two photon center of mass energy for unpolarized beams. Also shown is the total
cross section in two other situations: both beams with right polarization and the two beams with
opposite polarization. The parameters are chosen to be mh0 , mH 0 , mA0 , m12 = 115, 130, 100, 400
GeV, sin α = 0.6, tan β = 1 and mH ± = 250 GeV.
In Fig. 4 (left) we show the polarized and unpolarized cross section for γγ → h0 h0 both
in the SM and in the 2HDM. The cross section is amplified by the threshold effect when
Eγγ ≈ 2mH± = 500 GeV , corresponding to the opening of the charged Higgs pair channel,
γγ → H + H − . Near this threshold region, the cross section of the 2HDM is more than two
orders of magnitude larger than the SM one. Note that the s-channel vertex contribution
is suppressed for large values of the center of mass energy due to the s-channel propagator.
At high energies, box diagrams will dominates over the s-channel vertex. Let us take h0 h0
production as an example. The value of the couplings for this set of parameters is
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 H + H − ≈ 3 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
SM
λ2HDM
h0 A0 A0 ≈ 2.5 × λh0 h0 h0
,
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 H + H − ≈ 20 × λh0 h0 h0
,
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 h 0 h 0 ≈ 7 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 h0 h0 ≈ 16.5 × λh0 h0 h0
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 h 0 H + H − ≈ λh 0 h 0 h 0 h 0
,
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 A0 A0 ≈ 17.5 × λh0 h0 h0
SM
λ2HDM
A0 A0 H + H − ≈ 0.5 × λh0 h0 h0 h0 .
,
(23)
Now the largest contribution to the vertex comes from the H 0 H + H − and H 0 h0 h0 couplings
2
squared which are approximately 400 and 272 times larger than (λSM
h0 h0 h0 ) . Note that in
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0
-1
10
-1
10
0 0
γγ→h h
0 0
γγ→A A
mH± = 200 GeV
10
mH± = 250 GeV
mH± = 200 GeV
-2
10
10
mH± = 250 GeV
σ (pb)
σ (pb)
-2
= 300 GeV
-3
10
-3
10
SM
mH± = 300 GeV
-4
10
-5
-4
10
10
400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
FIG. 5: The total cross section of σ(γγ → hh) (left) and σ(γγ → A0 A0 ) (right) as a function
of two photon center of mass energy in the 2HDM. With mh0 , mH 0 , mA0 , m12 = 120, 200, 120, 300
GeV, sin α = −0.86 and tan β = 1 for different values of mH ± .
the case of A0 A0 there are no boxes with virtual H ± exchange because the A0 H + H − coupling does not exist and consequently the vertex contribution will dominate over the box
contribution.
In the right panel of Fig. 4 the CP-odd Higgs boson pair production γγ → A0 A0 is shown.
The conclusions are very similar to the ones for the h0 h0 final state. The total cross sections
is dominated by vertex contributions for low energy. This dominance is amplified by the
threshold effect when Eγγ ≈ 2mH± . For high center of mass energies, box contributions
dominate because they have those t and u channel topologies which are enhanced for large
center of mass energies. Finally, we show that when the initial photons are both right
handed (++) or left handed (−−) polarized, the cross sections are enhanced by more than
a factor two as compared to the unpolarized case. In the opposite case, when the initial
photons have opposite polarizations, (+−) or (−+), the cross sections are now suppressed
when compared to unpolarized case.
The box contribution has either the quartic vertex h0 h0 H + H − or twice the triple vertex
h0 H + H − which means that the cross section will have (λh0 H + H − )4 dependence. When
h0 H + H − and/or h0 h0 H + H − are large enough the boxes could dominate over the vertices.
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By tuning sin α one can make h0 H + H − and h0 h0 H + H − large enough to allow for the boxes
to dominate. This is exactly what is illustrated in the following Fig. 5, where we present
the total cross section for γγ → h0 h0 (left) and γγ → A0 A0 (right) as a function of the two
photon center of mass energy for different values of the charged Higgs mass. Once more we
can see the enhancement when Eγγ ≈ 2mH± for γγ → h0 h0 and the cross section can reach
0.2 pbarn. For this specific scenario, the triple and quartic couplings are
SM
λ2HDM
h0 H + H − ≈ 13 × λh0 h0 h0
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 H + H − ≈ 4 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 h 0 h 0 ≈ 3 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
,
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 A0 A0 ≈ 2 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
,
,
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 A0 A0 ≈ 9 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
SM
λ2HDM
H 0 h 0 h 0 ≈ 3 × λh 0 h 0 h 0
SM
λ2HDM
h0 h0 H + H − ≈ 12 × λh0 h0 h0 h0
,
SM
λ2HDM
A0 A0 H + H − ≈ 0.5 × λh0 h0 h0 h0
(24)
In the case of the γγ → h0 h0 mode, the total cross section is now fully dominated by box
contributions both at low and high energies. This is because the couplings h0 H + H − and
h0 h0 H + H − which contribute to the boxes are relatively large. In the case of γγ → A0 A0
mode, for low energy, the total cross section is dominated by vertex diagrams because
the triple couplings h0 H + H − and h0 A0 A0 are large. For high energies, where vertex are
suppressed, the total cross section is dominated by the box contributions. Hence, at high
energies, both for the γγ → h0 h0 and for the γγ → A0 A0 modes, the total contribution is
dominated by boxes.
In Fig. 6, we illustrate the sensitivity to the charged Higgs boson contribution for different
center of mass energy for the h0 h0 and the A0 A0 modes. In both cases, the cross sections are
enhanced for light charged Higgs for the reasons explained above and are suppressed after
crossing the threshold for γγ → H + H − production, i.e., mH± >
∼ Eγγ /2.
In Fig. 7 we show the total cross section for γγ → h0 h0 (left) and γγ → A0 A0 (right) as
a function the heavy Higgs mass for several values of the center of mass energy. Once the
center of mass energy is close to mH 0 , one can see in both plots the effect of the resonance of
the heavy CP-even Higgs. The difference between them is only due to the vertex diagrams
with an intermediate heavy Higgs that then decays to h0 h0 or A0 A0 . In both cases, the cross
sections can reach 0.1 pb near the resonance Eγγ ≈ mH 0 .
For the h0 H 0 or H 0 H 0 final states, the generic set of Feynman diagrams that contribute
to those processes is almost the same. The main enhancement factor for the cross section is
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100
10-1
γγ→A0A0
Eγγ = 400 GeV
Eγγ = 400 GeV
Eγγ = 500 GeV
10-1
10-2
σ (pb)
σ (pb)
Eγγ = 600 GeV
10-2
Eγγ = 500 GeV
Eγγ = 600 GeV
10-3
γγ→h0h0
10-3
150
200
250
mH±(GeV)
300
10-4
150
350
200
250
mH±(GeV)
300
350
FIG. 6: The total cross section σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) (left) and σ(γγ → A0 A0 ) (right) as a function of the charged Higgs mass for different center of mass energies Eγγ in the 2HDM. With
mh0 , mH 0 , mA0 , m12 = 120, 240, 270, 350 GeV , sin α = −0.9 and tan β = 1.
0
0
10
10
Eγγ = 300 GeV
0 0
0 0
γγ→h h
γγ→A A
-1
-1
10
-2
σ (pb)
σ (pb)
10
400 GeV
10
-3
Eγγ = 300 GeV
-2
400 GeV
10
-3
10
10
1000 GeV
1000 GeV
-4
-4
10
10
150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550
mH0 (GeV)
150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550
mH0 (GeV)
FIG. 7: The total cross section σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) (left) and σ(γγ → A0 A0 ) (right) as a function of
the heavy Higgs mass mH 0 in the 2HDM. With mh0 , mH ± , mA0 , m12 = 120, 250, 150, 200 GeV ,
sin α = 0.9 and tan β = 1.5 for different values of the two photon center of mass energy Eγγ .
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-1
10
-2
+ -
10
0 0
+ -
e e → γγ → h h
-2
-3
Eγγ = 400 GeV
Eγγ = 1000 GeV
σ (pb)
10
σ (pb)
10
0 0
e e → γγ → A A
-3
-4
10
10
Eγγ = 400 GeV
-4
10
Eγγ = 1000 GeV
-5
10
150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550
mH0 (GeV)
150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
mH0 (GeV)
FIG. 8: The total cross section σ(e+ e− → γγ → h0 h0 ) (left) and σ(e+ e− → γγ → A0 A0 ) (right)
as a function of the heavy Higgs mass mH 0 in the 2HDM with the same parameters as in Fig. 7.
the virtual charged Higgs bosons exchange, particularly relevant near the threshold region
Eγγ = 2mH± . The only difference between those final states and the h0 h0 and the A0 A0
ones, is the absence of the H 0 resonant effect, since it can not decay neither to h0 H 0 nor to
H 0 H 0 . The situation is the same as in the SM. If the CP-even H 0 has a mass of the same
order as h0 the cross section of h0 H 0 or H 0 H 0 could be of the same order of magnitude and
may reach 0.1 pb. If the CP-even Higgs is heavy, phase space suppression occurs and the
cross sections for h0 H 0 and H 0H 0 production are smaller.
In the case of h0 A0 or H 0 A0 final state, a quite different situation occurs. Due to the
presence of the CP odd scalar A0 in the final state, the Higgs boson φ in the s-channel vertex
(Fig. 1) v1→4 , v9 and v12 must also be CP-odd. Hence, the processes γγ → h0 A0 , H 0 A0 do not
proceed through an intermediate CP-even Higgs. This implies that there is no closed loop
of virtual exchange of charged Higgs, both in the vertex and box contributions, which again,
is the main factor of enhancement of the cross section for the h0 h0 and the A0 A0 modes. In
the boxes, we have rather a mixture of charged Higgs and charged Goldstones in the loop
(gauge couplings). We have checked that the values of the cross section of γγ → h0 A0 are
much smaller than the h0 h0 and A0 A0 ones. We have performed a systematic scan over the
2HDM parameters with mh0 = mA0 in the range 100 to 160 GeV , and found that the cross
section of γγ → h0 A0 does not exceed 0.04 pb. Note that the largest value for the cross
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section, 0.04 pb, is attained near the top quark threshold region Eγγ ≈ 2mt ; away from this
region the cross section drops below 0.01 pb. Similarly, we found that large cross section
for γγ → h0 A0 prefer rather small values of tan β <
∼ 3, | sin α| >
∼ 0.5, large m12 and also low
√
center of mass energies s <
∼ 600 GeV .
Finally, in Fig. 8 we show the total cross section for e+ e− → γγ → h0 h0 (left) and for
e+ e− → γγ → A0 A0 (right) as a function the heavy Higgs mass for two center of mass
energies Eγγ . The total cross section is evaluated by convoluting the photon-photon cross
section with the photon-photon luminosity spectrum taken from the CompAZ library [44].
CompAZ is based on formulae for the Compton scattering and provides the photon energy
spectrum for different beam energies and the average photon polarization for a given photon
energy. First, let us remark that again this cross section is large enough to be measured in a
significant region of the parameter space. We can still see the heavy Higgs resonance effects
but somehow softened by the photon spectrum.
0
-2
10
10
Eγγ = 500 GeV
0 0
Eγγ = 1 TeV
-1
γγ → A 0A0
γγ → h h
(+ +)
10
(+ +)
10
dσ/dcosθ (pb)
dσ/dcosθ (pb)
-3
-2
(+ +)
-3
10
(+ -)
-4
10
(+ -)
-4
(+ +)
10
(+ -)
-5
10
(+ -)
10
-5
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
10
1
-1
-0.5
cosθ
0
0.5
1
cosθ
FIG. 9: The differential cross section for γγ → h0 h0 and γγ → A0 A0 with equally polarized
√
√
photons and oppositely polarized photons for s = 500 GeV (left) and s = 1 TeV (right). The
2HDM parameters are the same as in Fig.5 and mH ± fixed at 250 GeV.
Let us now turn to the differential cross section for γγ → h0 h0 and γγ → A0 A0 . In Fig. 9
√
√
we illustrate the differential cross for a center of mass energy of s = 500 GeV and s = 1
T eV and for identically polarized (++), (−−) and oppositely polarized (+−), (−+) initial
√
photons. As one can see from the left panel for s = 500 GeV , for both the h0 h0 and
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the A0 A0 modes, the angular distribution for (++) and (−−) polarized photons is almost
flat while for the (+−) and (−+) modes it has a parabolic shape with a rather small cross
section except for γγ → h0 h0 where in the region of −0.5 < cos θ < 0.5 the differential cross
√
section is of the order of 0.1 f b. For s = 1 T eV , Fig. 9 (right panel), it is clear that the
angular distribution are very similar to the ones on the left panel with the cross sections
more than one order of magnitude smaller. The shape of these differential cross sections
clearly tell us that we will not be able to distinguish the CP nature of the particle on the
basis of this angular distribution.
B.
Fermiophobic limit
In the SM, where just one doublet couples to all fermions, each scalar couples to the
different fermions with the same coupling constant. In a general 2HDM it is also possible to
couple just one doublet to all fermions by choosing an appropriate symmetry for both the
fermions and the scalars. However, the difference between the SM and the 2HDM is that
now the couplings are proportional to the rotation angles α and β. For instance, the lightest
π
SM
CP-even Higgs couples to all fermions as cos α/ sin β ghf
f¯. By choosing α = ± 2 , the lightest
Higgs decouples from all fermions. Such a scenario, with the appearance of the so-called
”fermiophobic” Higgs boson, arise in a variety of models [27]. The heavy CP-even scalar
will acquire larger couplings to the fermions than the corresponding SM couplings. All the
remaining scalars are not affected by this choice as they do not couple proportionally to α.
In the situation where the Higgs-fermion couplings are substantially suppressed, the full
decay width of the Higgs boson is shared mostly between the W W , ZZ and γγ decay modes.
In this limit, for masses mh0 < 100 GeV , the Higgs boson dominantly decays to photon pairs.
Experimental searches for fermiophobic Higgs bosons at the LEP collider and the Tevatron
collider have yielded negative results. Mass limits have been set in a benchmark model that
assumes that the couplings hW W and hZZ have the same strength as in the SM and that
all fermion branching ratios are exactly zero. Combination of the results obtained by the
LEP collaborations [45, 46, 47, 48] using the process e+ e− → hZ, h → γγ yielded the lower
bound mh > 109.7 GeV at 95% C.L. [49]. In Run I, Tevatron has set lower limits on mh
by the D0 and CDF collaborations which are respectively 78.5 GeV [50] and 82 GeV [51],
using the processes q q̄ ′ → V ∗ → hW, hZ, h → γγ, with the dominant contribution coming
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10-1
-2
10
100
tanβ=2, m12 = 200 GeV
tanβ=3, m12 = 100 GeV
tanβ=5, m12 = 40 GeV
tanβ=7, m12 = 0 GeV
Fermiophobic
-1
m12 = 300 GeV
10
0 0
γγ→h h
-2
0 0
-3
γγ→h h
σ (pb)
σ (pb)
Fermiophobic
10
10
-3
10
= 200 GeV
-4
10
-4
10
-5
m12 = 0 GeV
-5
10
10
400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Eγγ (GeV)
FIG. 10: The total cross section σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) as a function of the center of mass energy Eγγ
in the fermiophobic limit (sin α = 1). In the left panel with different values of tan β and m12 for
mh0 , mH 0 , mA0 , mH ± = 100, 200, 100, 150 GeV . In the right panel, mh0 = 120 GeV , mH 0 =
mH ± = mA0 = 300 GeV and tan β = 1.
from the W boson. Recently the CDF [52] and the D0 [53] collaborations have improved
their bounds which are now of the order of 100 GeV , close to the bound obtained by the
LEP collaborations. It should be noted that all experimental mass bounds assume, in the
fermiophobic limit, tan β ∼ 0 in the tree-level couplings to the gauge bosons.
It is clear that in the fermiophobic limit the coupling H 0 h0 h0 (Eq. (14)) is directly
proportional to m12 , while the other couplings depend both on m12 , tan β as well as on
mH ± . We show in Fig. 10, the total cross section for γγ → h0 h0 as a function of the two
photon center of mass energy in the fermiophobic limit. The parameters m12 and tan β
are varied within the allowed range. It is clear that the cross section is enhanced for large
m12 and can reach 0.1 pb for large m12 = 200 GeV (left) and m12 = 300 GeV (right).
The observed kinks are the top threshold at Eγγ = 2mt and the charged Higgs threshold
Eγγ = 2mH± .
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C.
Decoupling limit
A study of 2HDM in the decoupling limit reveals the case where all scalar masses except
one formally become large and the effective theory is just the SM with one doublet - mh0 <<
mΦ where mΦ = mH 0 ,A0 ,H ± (see [28] for an overview). In this case, the CP-even h0 is the
lightest scalar particle while the other Higgs particles H 0 , A0 and H ± are extremely heavy.
In 2HDM, the decoupling limit can be achieved by taking the limit α → β − π/2. This
means that the coupling of the h0 to the gauge bosons, fermions and light Higgs, h0 are the
same as for the Standard Model hSM Higgs. Also, in the decoupling limit, the triple Higgs
(0)
coupling λh0 h0 H 0 vanishes at tree-level, so that the heavy Higgs cannot contribute to the
process γγ → h0 h0 and the result is independent of the mass mH 0 . In the decoupling limit,
the tree-level trilinear Higgs couplings take the form
SM
λ2HDM
h 0 h 0 h 0 ≈ λh 0 h 0 h 0 ,
λ2HDM
h0 h0 H 0 ≈ 0,
g
m2h0 + 2m2H ± + m212 ,
2mW
g
≈
λ2HDM
0 + −.
2mW h H H
λ2HDM
h0 H + H − ≈ −
λ2HDM
h0 h0 H + H −
(25)
(26)
It is clear that these couplings are independent of tan β as well. As one can see from the
2HDM
2
analytical expression of λ2HDM
h0 H + H − and λh0 h0 H + H − , the charged Higgs and m12 add construc-
tively for m212 > 0 and destructively for m212 < 0. At tree level, the enhancement of the
cross section essentially depends on the size of the h0 H + H − and H 0 H − H + couplings. By
taking these couplings as large as possible under the referred theoretical and experimental
constraints, we obtain the best possible enhancement for the cross section σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) in
the 2HDM for each mΦ (mΦ = mH 0 = mA0 = mH ± ). However, it is well known that those
couplings of the CP-even h0 which mimic the SM couplings get significant radiative corrections in the decoupling limit to which we refer to as non-decoupling effects. Several studies
have been carried out looking for non-decoupling effects in Higgs boson decays and Higgs
self-interactions. Large loop effects in h0 → γγ, h0 → γZ and h0 → bb̄ have been pointed
out for the 2HDM [54, 55] and may provide indirect information on the Higgs masses and
the involved triple Higgs couplings such as λh0 H + H − for h0 → γγ and λh0 H 0 H 0 , λh0 A0 A0 and
λh0 h0 h0 for h0 → bb̄.
The non-decoupling contributions to the triple Higgs self-coupling λh0 h0 h0 have been in21
vestigated in the 2HDM in Ref. [56], using the Feynman diagrammatic method. It has been
demonstrated that the one-loop leading contributions originated from the heavy Higgs boson
loops and the top quark loops to the effective h0 h0 h0 coupling can be written as [56]
!3
!3
3m2h0
m4H 0
M2
M2
m4A0
ef f
λh 0 h 0 h 0 =
1+
1+ 2
1+ 2
+
v
12π 2 m2h0 v 2
mH 0
12π 2 m2h0 v 2
mA0
m4 ±
M2
+ 2 H2 2 1 + 2
6π mh0 v
mH ±
!3
!
Nc m4t
p2i m2Φ m2Φ p2i m2t m2t
,
,
,
− 2 2 2 +O
, (27)
3π mh0 v
m2h0 v 2 v 2 m2h0 v 2 v 2
where M 2 = m212 /(sin β cos β), mΦ and pi represent the mass of H 0 , A0 or H ± and the
momenta of external Higgs lines, respectively, Nc denotes the number of colors, and mt is
the mass of top quark. We note that in Eq. (27) mh0 is the renormalized physical mass of the
lightest CP-even Higgs boson h0 . In the calculation of the γγ → h0 h0 cross section in the
(0)
decoupling limit, we replace the λh0 h0 h0 coupling by its effective coupling given in Eq. (27)
which corresponds, in this limit, to an effective 2-loop 2HDM contribution (see Ref. [56] for
a detailed discussion).
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10
1 loop; m12 = 200 GeV
Decoupling Limit
Decoupling Limit
MΦ = 300 GeV ; m12 = 200 GeV
MΦ = 300 GeV ; m12 = 0
MΦ = 400 GeV ; m12 = 0
MΦ = 500 GeV ; m12 = 0
1
σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) (f b)
σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) (f b)
Eγγ = 500 GeV
2 loop; m12 = 200 GeV
1
2 loop; m12 = 0
SM
0.1
SM
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1 loop; m12 = 0
200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650
MΦ
Eγγ
FIG. 11: Cross sections for h0 h0 production in the decoupling limit with unpolarized photons. On
the right we show the loop contributions to the total cross section as a function of mΦ and for two
values of m12 , 0 and 200 GeV. On the left panel the cross section as a function Eγγ is shown for
different values of mΦ and m12 . The light Higgs mass is mh0 = 120 GeV .
As stated in the introduction, this process was studied in detail in Refs. [14, 15] in the
decoupling limit. In fact, there is a one to one correspondence between our potential and
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the potential used in [14] which relate λ5 parameter of Ref [14] to our m12 by:
m212 = −λ5 v1 v2
(28)
From this relation, one can see that λ5 < 0 (resp λ5 > 0) correspond to our m212 > 0
(resp m212 < 0). In [14], the non-decoupling effects have their origin in the h0 H + H − and
h0 h0 H + H − vertex and are present already at tree level. In their notation, when λ5 = 0
(m12 = 0 in our notation) and at the same time the charged Higgs mass and the lightest
Higgs mass are of the same order we get λh0 H + H − ≈ λSM
h0 h0 h0 . Hence, in this limit the 2HDM
cross section is very similar to its SM counterpart. As m212 falls to negative values, the cross
section drops due to a cancelation between the m212 and the m2H ± contributions until the
m212 term starts to dominate and the cross section increase again. For positive m212 the cross
section is enhanced relative to the SM one and the non-decoupling effects can be quite large
as shown in [14] for λ5 < 0. Therefore, at the 1-loop level m212 and the charged Higgs mass are
the parameters that regulate the non-decoupling effects. In [15], the authors have studied
only the case of m12 = 0 and looked for non-decoupling effects in higher order corrections
with origin in the vertex h0 h0 h0 as described earlier. In this case the non-decoupling effects
appear mainly for large values of the masses. In this section we will combine both the effects
of ref [14] and ref [15] and present the results for the case of the unpolarized photon cross
section. We will show that even in this case where the cross sections would be severely
reduced, there are still regions where the 2HDM CP even Higgs h0 could be disentangled
from the SM hSM .
In the left panel of Fig. 11 we show the cross section for γγ → h0 h0 as a function of Eγγ
for mΦ = 300, 400 and 500 GeV with m12 = 0 together with the case where m12 = 200
GeV (note that from now on we will be considering m212 > 0) and mΦ = 300 GeV . In this
left panel, the coupling h0 h0 h0 is taken at the tree-level without the higher order correction
of Eq.(27). The non-decoupling effects due to the charged Higgs mass can be seen in the
vicinity of Eγγ = 2 mΦ where the cross section is of the order of 0.6 to 0.7 fbarn. This effect
is enhanced for higher values of m12 . As shown in the plot, for a charged Higgs mass of 300
GeV and m12 = 200 GeV the cross section can reach 5 fbarn and this value grows with large
m12 . In the right panel of Fig. 11 we display the cross section of γγ → h0 h0 as a function
mΦ . Here, besides the SM value we plot four different scenarios. The one-loop case with
m12 = 0 and m12 = 200 GeV and the two-loop case with the higher order corrections given
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in Eq.(27) for the same two values of m12 . One can see that the cross section enhancement
f
due to the large corrections in λef
h0 h0 h0 take place only for large mΦ if m12 = 0. As m12 grows
the cross section grows as described in the left panel, but on top of that we get an extra
enhancement due to the higher order corrections. Largest values of the cross section, that
can reach 10 fbarn, are attained for the low mass region in mΦ . It is also clear from the right
panel that without the higher order corrections of Eq.(27), for large mΦ , the 2HDM cross
section is similar to SM one. On the other hand, once those higher order corrections are
included, non decoupling effects arise - the cross section then grows relative to the SM one
and can be almost two orders of magnitude above the corresponding SM process depending
on the value of mΦ . We finally note that the cut on mΦ at 610 GeV for m12 = 0 and on mΦ
at 550 GeV for m12 = 200 GeV is due to unitarity constraints.
V.
HIGGS SIGNATURES
We are considering a light CP-even Higgs, that is, with a mass of 120 GeV or less.
Assuming that all decay channels with some other Higgs boson in the final state are unaccessible, this particle decays predominantly to bb̄ in this mass region. The exception is
in the fermiophobic Higgs scenario where it decays to two photons although for a mass of
120 GeV one has already to consider the decay to two W bosons even if one of the W is
off-shell and strongly virtual. The rate at which it decays to each final state depends on the
remaining parameters of the 2HDM (see [57, 58] for details). The two subleading decays
that compete with h0 → bb̄ are h0 → cc̄ and h0 → τ + τ − . In model type I the branching
fractions to fermions are the SM ones because the coupling dependence cancels. In model
type II, the ratio Γ(h0 → bb̄)/Γ(h0 → τ + τ − ) is the SM one. On the other hand it is easy to
check that for tan β ≥ 1 the decay h0 → bb̄ is again the dominant one provided we are in a
region with moderate values of tan α. For the remaining Yukawa models the situation does
not change dramatically. However, if we take as an example the case where Φ2 couples to
the quarks and Φ1 couples to the leptons, we obtain the ratio
m2b
1
Γ(h0 → bb̄)
=
2
Γ(h0 → τ + τ − )
m2τ tan α tan2 β
(29)
in the limit mh ≫ mq . Even for tan α = tan β ≈ 3 the ratio becomes almost 100 times
smaller than the corresponding SM ratio. Therefore, a detailed study for each model will
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have to take into account the exact branching fractions for each Yukawa version of the
2HDM.
The dominant background to double Higgs production is γγ → W + W − and non-resonant
four jet production. The first one can be reduced by imposing a cut on the invariant mass of
each pair of b-jets, M(q q̄), forcing it to be close to Higgs mass. An efficient b-tagging would
further reduce the background by asking that at least three jets be identified as originating
from b quarks. A cut on the polar angle would eliminate the non-resonant 4-jet background.
Together they would reduce the backgrounds to a level well below the signal. A more detailed
analysis can be found in [13]. In the fermiophobic case, the analysis is greatly simplified by
the smallness of the four photon production cross section. We just need to avoid very soft
photons which can be done with a sensible cut on the photon’s transverse momentum.
The process γγ → h0 H 0 gives rise to very similar signatures. There are in principle two
drawbacks: first the phase space is reduced because there is a heavier Higgs in the final state;
second we can not reduce the background by asking the two invariant masses from each pair
of b-jets to have a similar magnitude. On the other hand, if the channel H 0 → h0 h0 is open,
it can be dominant. This would lead to a very interesting signal of a six b-jet final state. As
for γγ → h0 (H 0 )A0 we concluded that the cross section is much smaller due to the absence
of virtual charged Higgs in the loop.
A pseudo-scalar Higgs decays again mainly as A0 → bb̄ and the subleading competing
decays are again A0 → cc̄ and A0 → τ + τ − . The situation is similar to the CP-even Higgs
case - if tan β ≈ 1 the bb̄ channel is always the dominant and well above the others. Once
more if we consider the model where one doublet couples to the quarks and the other couples
to the leptons, we obtain the ratio
m2b
Γ(A0 → bb̄)
1
=
0
+
−
2
Γ(A → τ τ )
mτ tan2 β
(30)
in the limit mh ≫ mq . In this case, for tan β ≈ 3 the ratio becomes 10 times smaller than
the corresponding SM ratio. Note that a similar situation can occur in the ratio between
decays to down and to up quarks. Obviously, this is true as long as the other channels
involving other Higgs are closed. The decays to either h0 Z or W + H − become dominant as
soon as they are kinematically allowed. The last two cases could again lead to interesting
final states which are easy to detect. As all the cases discussed refer to light Higgs, even
if the Higgs to Higgs channel is open the Higgs decay width will in most situation be well
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below the GeV or a few GeV at most.
A final word about the behavior of the cross section with the scattering angle. We have
shown that if the A0 and h0 masses are of the same order, and because in most models
the possible final states are very similar, it will be very hard to distinguish a CP-even from
a CP-odd state. In fact, even if one changes the polarization of the initial photons, the
differential cross section does not distinguish clearly between the two cases except in regions
where either the cross sections are too small to be measured or the angle is too small to be
probed.
VI.
CONCLUSIONS
We have calculated the total cross section for γγ → Si Sj , Si = h0 , A0 , H 0, in the framework of the 2HDM taking into account perturbativity, unitarity as well as vacuum stability
constraints on the scalar potential parameters λ’s. All available experimental constraints
were also taken into account. For the numerical study, we mainly focused on the h0 h0 and
A0 A0 production modes. We have studied those processes in the general 2HDM, and in
two other limiting scenarios: the fermiophobic limit, a scenario where the lightest CP-even
Higgs decouples from the fermions and the decoupling scenario where this same Higgs resembles the SM Higgs boson. We have shown that, for both production modes, the most
important contribution to σ(γγ → h0 h0 ) and to σ(γγ → A0 A0 ) comes from the charged
Higgs H ± diagrams and also from the diagrams with a resonant heavy Higgs that can decay
as H 0 → h0 h0 or H 0 → A0 A0 . Since the cross section is dominated by the charged Higgs
virtual exchange, it does not depend on the Yukawa structure of the model.
We have shown that the cross section for γγ → h0 h0 can be more than 100 times larger
than the corresponding SM one in vast regions of the parameters space. The parameter space
will easily be probed for the largest allowed values of tan β, m212 and | sin α|. A light charged
Higgs, that is, below the collider center of mass energy, is preferred. A variable energy
collider would be a good option to detect the heavy Higgs resonance. We have argued that
knowledge of the charged Higgs effects may be crucial to understand the nature of the Higgs
bosons if they are eventually found in future experiments at LHC and/or ILC. In the case
of γγ → h0 h0 , we have illustrated that even with a charged Higgs mass of the order of
300 GeV, in agreement with b → sγ, the cross section can have a substantial enhancement
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(clearly at least one order of magnitude above the SM). In case of 2HDM type I, where a
light charged Higgs is not ruled out from b → sγ one can have an even larger enhancement
which could be 3 order of magnitude above the SM results.
The analysis in [13] shows that the SM Higgs triple coupling could be probed at a linear
collider. As described before, their analysis is mainly based on an invariant mass cut, on
the identification of at least 3 jets as originating from b-quarks and on a the polar angle
cut | cos θb | < 0.9. We have showed that the inclusion of the new 2HDM diagrams do not
change the angular distribution as the Higgs angular distribution remains almost flat, so
that the same cut could be applied. Moreover, in the two Yukawa versions of the model,
BR(h → bb̄) is at least the SM one if not larger. Because the invariant mass cut is the
same, the analysis can be applied directly to the 2HDM case. Therefore, when a complete
experimental analysis is completed for the SM, it is ready to be used to constraint the 2HDM
parameter space. This is one of the major advantages of this study.
Although other regions give rise to higher cross sections, the very interesting case of the
2HDM decoupling limit can also be probed at the photon collider. The importance of the
sign of m212 was studied in a more general context. Clearly, positive m212 (in our notation) can
lead to large non-decoupling effects. Non-decoupling effects can also appear due to higher
order correction to the triple h0 h0 h0 vertex. We have shown that non-decoupling effects will
be more easily seen in the low and in the high mφ regions as in the intermediate mass region
the cross section is closer to the SM values.
In the fermiophobic limit this process is complementary to the LEP production process
as it grows with m12 . Most importantly, it can also probe a part of the parameter space
that cannot be accessed at hadron colliders. When m12 ≈ 0 the cross section vanishes at
hadron colliders [59]. On the contrary, we have shown that in photon-photon collisions the
cross section can reach a few fbarn for m12 ≈ 0 and tan β ≈ 5. The region of low m12 in the
fermiophobic scenario will most probably not be excluded until we have access to a photon
collider.
Regarding the CP-odd Higgs, we have shown that, for the energies considered, only a
light A0 will be probed at a photon-photon collider. For mA0 ≥ 150 GeV the cross section is
virtually zero. We have also covered the mixed CP-even modes h0 H 0 and H 0 H 0 final state
and checked that they can have comparable cross sections to the h0 h0 mode if H 0 is not
too heavy. For the other modes, h0 A0 and H 0 A0 we concluded that their cross section is at
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least one order of magnitude smaller than the h0 h0 and the A0 A0 one.
As for the final states we have shown that in the two most popular models, 2HDM-I and
2HDM-II, the bb̄ final state is the preferred channel as its branching fraction is always at
least the SM one. In this case and for not too heavy h0 and A0 a 4b final state can be
searched for. We have showed the such a study for the SM can also be used for the 2HDM.
This study can then be complemented with the final states 2b2τ and 4τ . In other models
and when other channels are kinematically available, a detailed study has to be performed
taking into account all 2HDM parameters.
A last word: there is a well known complementarity between the LHC and the ILC. In
this regard, if some of the 2HDM parameters and/or couplings are measured at the LHC
and/or ILC experiments such as Higgs masses and the magnitude of the vertices h0 h0 h0 and
H 0 h0 h0 , this information could then be used at γγ experiments in order to extract missing
parameters and couplings like h0 H + H − and H 0 H + H − .
VII.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank Fernando Cornet for valuable discussions. C.C.H is supported
by the National Science Council of R.O.C under Grant #s: NSC-97-2112-M-006-001-MY3
and R.B is supported by National Cheng Kung University Grant No. HUA 97-03-02-063.
R.S. is supported by the FP7 via a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, contract number
PIEF-GA-2008-221707.
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