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Report number | arXiv:1907.12522 ; PoS(LHCP2019)013 |
Title | Dark Matter Signals at the LHC from a 3HDM |
Author(s) | Rojas-Ciofalo, Diana (Southampton U.) ; Cordero, Adriana (Puebla U., Inst. Fis.) ; Hernández-Sánchez, Jaime (Puebla U., Inst. Fis.) ; Keus, Venus (Helsinki Inst. of Phys. ; Helsinki U.) ; Moretti, Stefano (Southampton U.) ; Sokolowska, Dorota (IIP, Brazil) |
Publication | SISSA, 2019-07-30 |
Imprint | 2019-07-29 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Note | 7th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics - LHCP2019 20-25 May, 2019 Puebla, Mexico, drawn from arXiv:1712.09598 |
In: | PoS LHCP2019 (2019) 013 |
In: | 7th Edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP), Puebla, Mexico, 20 May 2019, pp.013 |
DOI | 10.22323/1.350.0013 |
Subject category | Particle Physics - Phenomenology ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
Abstract | We analyse new signals of Dark Matter (DM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where only one doublet acquires a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), preserving a parity $Z_2$. The other two doublets are inert and do not develop a VEV, leading to a dark scalar sector controlled by $Z_2$, with the lightest CP-even dark scalar $H_1$ being the DM candidate. This leads to the loop induced decay of the next-to-lightest scalar, $H_2\to H_1\bar{f}f$ ($f=u,d,c,s,b,e,\mu,\tau$), mediated by both dark CP-odd and charged scalars. This is a smoking-gun signal of the 3HDM since it is not allowed in the 2HDM with one inert doublet and is expected to be important when $H_2$ and $H_1$ are close in mass. In practice, this signature can be observed in the cascade decay of the SM-like Higgs boson, $h\to H_1H_2\to H_1H_1\bar{f}f$ into two DM particles and di-leptons/di-jets, where $h$ is produced from either gluon-gluon Fusion (ggF) or Vector Boson Fusion (VBF). |
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