Probing the Higgs sector of Y=0Y=0 Higgs Triplet Model at LHC

In this paper, we investigate the Higgs Triplet Model with hypercharge $Y_{\Delta}=0$ (HTM0), an extension of the Standard model, caracterised by a more involved scalar spectrum consisting of two CP even Higgs $h^0, H^0$ and two charged Higgs bosons $H^\pm$. We first show that the parameter space of HTM0, usually delimited by combined constraints originating from unitarity and BFB as well as experimental limits from LEP and LHC, is severely reduced when the modified Veltman conditions at one loop are also imposed. Then, we perform an rigorous analysis of Higgs decays either when $h^0$ is the SM-like or when the heaviest neutral Higgs $H^0$ is identified to the observed $125$ GeV Higgs boson at LHC. In these scenarios, we perform an extensive parameter scan, in the lower part of the scalar mass spectrum, with a particular focus on the Higgs to Higgs decay modes $H^0 \to h^0h^0, H^\pm\,H^\mp$ leading predominantly to invisible Higgs decays. Finally, we also study the scenario where $h^0, H^0$ are mass degenerate. We thus find that consistency with LHC signal strengths favours a light charged Higgs with a mass about $176\sim178$ GeV. Our analysis shows that the diphoton Higgs decay mode and $H \to Z \gamma$ are not always positively correlated as claimed in a previous study. Anti-correlation is rather seen in the scenario where $h$ is SM like, while correlation is sensitive to the sign of the potential parameter $\lambda$ when $H$ is identified to $125$ GeV Higgs.Comment: 33 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, references added, version to be published in Eur. Phys. J.

The Higgs Potential in the Type II Seesaw Model

We perform in the type II seesaw setting, a detailed study of the dynamical features of the corresponding general renormalizable doublet/triplet Higgs potential that depends on five dimensionless couplings and two mass parameters after spontaneous symmetry breaking, and highlight the implications for the Higgs phenomenology. In particular, we determine i) the complete set of tree-level unitarity constraints on the couplings of the potential and ii) the exact tree-level {\sl all directions} boundedness from below constraints on these couplings. When combined, these constraints delineate precisely the theoretically allowed parameter space domain within our perturbative approximation. Among the seven physical Higgs states of this model, the mass of the lighter (heavier) CP-even state h0 (H0) will always satisfy a theoretical upper (lower) bound that is reached for a critical value mu_c of mu (the mass parameter controlling triple couplings among the doublet/triplet Higgses). Saturating the unitarity bounds we find m_h0 < {\cal O}(0.7 - 1 TeV), while the upper bound for the remaining Higgses lies in the several tens of TeV. However, the actual masses can be much lighter. We identify two regimes corresponding to mu > mu_c and mu < mu_c. In the first regime the Higgs sector is typically very heavy and only h0 that becomes SM-like could be accessible to the LHC. In contrast, in the second regime, somewhat overlooked in the literature, most of the Higgs sector is light. In particular the heaviest state H0 becomes SM-like, the lighter states being the CP-odd Higgs, the (doubly) charged Higgses and a decoupled h0, possibly leading to a distinctive phenomenology at the colliders.Comment: 55 pages, 9 figures, no major changes, references added, a comment added to sec 3.1, typos correcte

Degenerate Higgs bosons decays to γγ{\gamma\gamma} and Zγ{Z\gamma} in the type II Seesaw Model

Using the most recent results of CMS and ATLAS, we study the Higgs decays to $\gamma\gamma$ and $Z\gamma$ in the scenario where the two CP even Higgs predicted by the type II seesaw model (HTM) are close to mass degenerate with a mass near $125$ GeV. We analyse the effects of the Higgs potential parameters constrained by the full set of perturbative unitarity, boundedness from below (BFB) as well as from precision electroweak measurements on these decay modes. Our analysis demonstrates that the observed excess in the diphoton Higgs decay channel can be interpreted in our scenario within a delineated region controlled by $\lambda_{1}$ and $\lambda_{4}$ coupling. We also find a deviation in the Higgs decay to $Z\gamma$ with respect to the Standard Model prediction and the largest enhancement is found for a ratio $R_{Z\gamma}$ of the order $1.6$. Furthermore we show that consistency with current ATLAS data on the diphoton decay channel favours a light doubly charged Higgs with mass in the range $92 - 180$~GeV. Finally, we find that the $\gamma\gamma$ and $Z \gamma$ Higgs decay modes are generally correlated and the magnitude of correlation is sensitive to the sign of the $\lambda_{1}$ parameter.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures, v2: minor modifications and added references, version to appear in Physical Review

Higgs-like particle decays into γZ\gamma Z and γγ\gamma\gamma : Fingerprints of some non-supersymmetric models

Recently, ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC put on light the relevant results in the measurement precision of the Higgs and BSM. In such a report, where the resonance direct search was made in the $\gamma Z$ channel, a mass adjustment distribution for the reconstructed $Z$ boson and photon was established. Thus, simultaneously with the signal-from-background separation, the number of events has been perfectly described, and an excess signal approximately twice that expected by the Standard Model (SM) has been noticed, which is equivalent to a significance of 2.2 standard deviations. In this study, we examine how any possible new physics models can explain this excess, such as the CP-conserving Two-Higgs doublet model (2HDMs), the Inert doublet model (IDM), and the Higgs triplet model (HTM). While considering the available theoretical and most recent experimental constraints, the phenomenological implications of existing extensions beyond the SM are discussed, and prospects for precision studies of these processes are described. We have found that the excess could be explained in the BSM framework studied, depending on the charged and double-charged Higgs boson masses.Comment: 29 pages, 15 figure

Consistency of New CDF-II W Boson Mass with 123-Model

Following the recent update measurement of the W boson mass performed by the CDF-II experiment at Fermilab which indicates $7\sigma$ deviation from the SM prediction. As a consequence, the open question is whether there are extensions of the SM that can carry such a remarkable deviation or what phenomenological repercussions this has. In this paper, we investigate what the theoretical constraints reveal about the \ott model. Also, we study the consistency of a CDF W boson mass measurement with the 123-model expectations, taking into account theoretical and experimental constraints. Both fit results of $S$ and $T$ parameters before and after $m_{W}^{\rm{CDF}}$ measurement are, moreover, considered in this study. Under these conditions, we found that the 123-model prediction is consistent with the measured $m_{W}^{\rm{CDF}}$ at a $95\%$ Confidence Level (CL).Comment: 17 pages, 3 figure

Higgs boson decay into 2 photons in the type~II Seesaw Model

We study the two photon decay channel of the Standard Model-like component of the CP-even Higgs bosons present in the type II Seesaw Model. The corresponding cross-section is found to be significantly enhanced in parts of the parameter space, due to the (doubly-)charged Higgs bosons' $(H^{\pm \pm})H^\pm$ virtual contributions, while all the other Higgs decay channels remain Standard Model(SM)-like. In other parts of the parameter space $H^{\pm \pm}$ (and $H^{\pm}$) interfere destructively, reducing the two photon branching ratio tremendously below the SM prediction. Such properties allow to account for any excess such as the one reported by ATLAS/CMS at $\approx 125$ GeV if confirmed by future data; if not, for the fact that a SM-like Higgs exclusion in the diphoton channel around 114-115 GeV as reported by ATLAS, does not contradict a SM-like Higgs at LEP(!), and at any rate, for the fact that ATLAS/CMS exclusion limits put stringent lower bounds on the $H^{\pm \pm}$ mass, particularly in the parameter space regions where the direct limits from same-sign leptonic decays of $H^{\pm \pm}$ do not apply.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figure

Naturalness in a type II seesaw model and implications for physical scalars

International audienceIn this paper, we consider a minimal extension to the standard model by a scalar triplet field with hypercharge Y = 2. This model relies on the seesaw mechanism which provides a consistent explication of neutrino mass generation. We show from naturalness considerations that the Veltman condition is modified by virtue of the additional scalar charged states and that quadratic divergencies at one loop can be driven to zero within the allowed parameter space of the model; the latter is severely constrained by unitarity and boundedness from below, and it is consistent with the di-photon Higgs decay data of the LHC. Furthermore, we analyze the naturalness condition effects to the masses of heavy Higgs bosons H^0, A^0, H^± and H^±±, providing a drastic reduction of the ranges of variation of mH± and mH±± with an upper bounds at 288 and 351 GeV, respectively, while predicting almost a degeneracy for the other neutral Higgs bosons H^0, A^0 at about 207 GeV