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Doubly charged Higgs boson at same-sign lepton colliders

Cheng-Wei Chiang1,2,*, Kazuki Enomoto1,†, and Min-Yuan Liao1,‡

  • *Contact author: chengwei@phys.ntu.edu.tw
  • †Contact author: k_enomoto@phys.ntu.edu.tw
  • ‡Contact author: r13222088@ntu.edu.tw
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 115003 – Published 1 December, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/yh2v-qhgm

Abstract

We investigate the search for doubly charged Higgs bosons in the Georgi-Machacek (GM) model at same-sign lepton colliders. The dominant production mode is vector boson fusion, through which the particle is singly produced and decays into a pair of same-sign W bosons if the triplet vacuum expectation value is sufficiently large, as allowed in the GM model. Considering the leptonic decays of the W bosons, we discuss the discovery reach of the signal and a method to extract the mass of the doubly charged Higgs boson. It is impossible to construct the transverse mass of the decay product to obtain the mass because of the neutrinos radiated from the initial-state leptons. Alternatively, we propose to make use of the invariant mass of the same-sign leptons. We perform χ2 fitting using the analytical formula for the invariant mass distribution and demonstrate that this approach is effective in extracting the information on the mass. We also compare the process with pair production processes at the opposite-sign lepton colliders.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 115003– Published 1 December, 2025
  • Received 14 August 2025
  • Accepted 6 November 2025
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