Higgs pair production at NLO QCD for CP-violating Higgs sectors

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2017.10.002zbMATH Open1375.81247arXiv1705.05314OpenAlexW2615546337MaRDI QIDQ1684076FDOQ1684076

Authors: Peng Zhang 

Publication date: 4 December 2017

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Higgs pair production through gluon fusion is an important process at the LHC to test the dynamics underlying electroweak symmetry breaking. Higgs sectors beyond the Standard Model (SM) can substantially modify this cross section through novel couplings not present in the SM or the on-shell production of new heavy Higgs bosons that subsequently decay into Higgs pairs. CP violation in the Higgs sector is important for the explanation of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry through electroweak baryogenesis. In this work we compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections in the heavy top quark limit, including the effects of CP violation in the Higgs sector. We choose the effective theory (EFT) approach, which provides a rather model-independent way to explore New Physics (NP) effects by adding dimension-6 operators, both CP-conserving and CP-violating ones, to the SM Lagrangian. Furthermore, we perform the computation within a specific UV-complete model and choose as benchmark model the general 2-Higgs-Doublet Model with CP violation, the C2HDM. Depending on the dimension-6 coefficients, the relative NLO QCD corrections are affected by several per cent through the new CP-violating operators. This is also the case for SM-like Higgs pair production in the C2HDM, while the relative QCD corrections in the production of heavier C2HDM Higgs boson pairs deviate more strongly from the SM case. The absolute cross sections both in the EFT and the C2HDM can be modified by more than an order of magnitude. In particular, in the C2HDM the resonant production of Higgs pairs can by far exceed the SM cross section.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05314

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zbMATH Keywords

CP violationNew Physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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Cited In (10)

• Collider physics at the precision frontier
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• Loop counting matters in SMEFT
• Color-octet scalars and potentially large \(CP\) violation at the LHC
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• Consistency of the two-Higgs-doublet model and CP violation in top production at the LHC

Uses Software

• HDECAY

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