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Correlating resonant di-Higgs and tri-Higgs production to in the two-Higgs-doublet model
Phys. Rev. D 114, 015044 – Published 28 July, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/g6sn-bf5n
Abstract
The observation of resonant di-Higgs production, which would strongly suggest the existence of a new heavy neutral scalar , has been searched for extensively at the LHC. In the two-Higgs doublet model (2HDM) with , where is the Higgs boson of mass 125 GeV observed at the LHC, we show that a direct correlation emerges between and , with , , which depends only on (and ). In particular, for heavy scalar masses between 500 GeV and 1 TeV, we find that . Moreover, is a dominant decay mode over a significant region of the parameter space and serves as the primary probe for a heavy scalar resonance at current and future hadron colliders. The origin of these predictions is most transparent in the Higgs basis, where the term in the scalar potential proportional to (and its Hermitian conjugate) generates the leading contributions to the and couplings in the decoupling limit of the 2HDM. Additionally, the latter coupling governs the resonant prompt tri-Higgs production via , which is also directly correlated to (and ), and can yield rates large enough to be measured at the High-Luminosity LHC.
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