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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 101: BSM Higgs 4

T 101.1: Talk

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 16:00–16:15, Geb. 30.41: HS 3

Analysis of interference effects in the di-top final state for CP-mixed scalars in extended Higgs sectors — Henning Bahl¹, •Romal Kumar², and Georg Weiglein^2,3 — ¹Institut für Theoretische Physik, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany — ²Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany — ³Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

Various extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of additional Higgs bosons. If these additional Higgs bosons are sufficiently heavy, an important search channel is the di-top final state. In this channel, interference contributions between the signal and the corresponding QCD background process are expected to be important. If more than one heavy scalar is present, besides the signal-background interference effects associated with each Higgs boson also important signal-signal interference effects are possible. We perform a comprehensive model-independent analysis of the various interference contributions within a simplified model framework considering two heavy scalars that can mix with each other, taking into account large resonance-type effects arising from loop-level mixing between the scalars. The interference effects are studied with Monte Carlo simulations for the di-top production process at the LHC. We demonstrate that signatures can emerge from these searches that may be unexpected or difficult to interpret.

Keywords: BSM physics; Interference effects; CP-violation; loop-level mixing; di-top final state