Explaining 650 GeV and 95 GeV anomalies in the 2-Higgs doublet model type-I
Source
arXiv
Date Issued
2025-09-01
Author(s)
Khanna, Akshat
Moretti, Stefano
Sarkar, Agnivo
Abstract
We propose an interpretation of a rather significant 650 GeV excess emerged at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from CMS Collaboration data in the \gamma\gamma b\bar b final state, accompanied by further clusters at 125(90-100) GeV in the \gamma\gamma(b\bar b) system, within the 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-I (2HDM-I) in presence of a softly broken \mathcal{Z}_{2} symmetry. The underlying process that we probe is gg-initiated production of a CP-odd (or pseudoscalar) Higgs boson A, with mass around 650 GeV, decaying into the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs state H (decaying into \gamma\gamma) and a Z boson (decaying into b\bar b). We configure this theoretical framework so as to also have in the spectrum a light CP-even (or scalar) Higgs state h with mass around 95 GeV, which is included for the purpose of simultaneously explaining additional data anomalies seen in the b\bar b, \gamma\gamma and \tau^+\tau^- final states while searching for light Higgs states at the Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider (the first one) and LHC (the last two). By accounting for both experimental and theoretical constraints, our results show that the 2HDM-I can explain all aforementioned anomalies at a significance level of 2.5 \sigma.
