- Accepted Paper
Can collisions rival in probing doubly charged Higgs bosons?
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 16 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6y56-hhgs
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 16 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6y56-hhgs
High-energy collisions, realizable as an operational mode of future lepton linear colliders such as the ILC and CLIC, provide a promising environment to probe extended Higgs sectors. We investigate the sensitivity of such colliders to doubly charged Higgs bosons within the 2-Higgs Doublet Model with type-II seesaw (2HDMcT). Focusing on the three-body production channels and , we perform a parameter space scan consistent with theoretical constraints as well as current collider, flavor, and electroweak precision observables~(EWPOs). We show that collisions can rival the discovery potential of the conventional mode for probing doubly charged Higgs bosons through a $4\ell+\slashed{E}_T$ signature~(). Despite the reduced effective luminosity resulting from the photon spectrum, the significantly enhanced production cross sections, exceeding those in electron-positron collisions by more than one order of magnitude, compensate for this limitation. By performing a detailed signal-to-background analysis at center-of-mass energies of and GeV, we demonstrate that a discovery significance at the level can be achieved for viable benchmark points~(BPs).
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