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Doubly charged Higgs production within the Higgs triplet model at future electron-positron colliders
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Future electron-positron colliders can discover doubly charged Higgs bosons up to 1.2 TeV with better reach than high-luminosity hadron colliders in the Higgs triplet model.
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
Within the Higgs triplet model the authors consider two extreme benchmark points as representatives of the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions. They show that at future electron-positron colliders operating in e-e-, e-γ, γγ and e+e- modes the doubly charged Higgs can be discovered with high statistical significance. In the gauge-like region this holds for the same-sign dilepton plus at least three jets final state up to a mass of approximately 1.2 TeV. The results also indicate greater advantages and superior discovery potential relative to searches at high-luminosity hadron colliders.
What carries the argument
The benchmark points in the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions of the Higgs triplet model parameter space, which determine the dominant production and decay modes of the doubly charged Higgs boson. These points enable the computation of signal cross sections and significances across different collider operating modes.
If this is right
- Single production of the doubly charged Higgs via e-e- and e-γ collisions yields detectable same-sign lepton pairs in the Yukawa-like region.
- The gauge-like region permits robust discovery up to 1.2 TeV mass using the same-sign lepton plus multiple jet final state.
- Electron-positron colliders provide greater discovery potential than high-luminosity hadron colliders for this particle.
- Various collision modes are explored to maximize sensitivity within the experimentally allowed parameter space.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- If realized, such searches would allow tighter constraints on the Higgs triplet model parameters through non-observation or discovery.
- The approach highlights the value of multi-mode operation in future linear colliders for beyond-Standard-Model physics.
- Similar benchmark strategies could apply to searches for other exotic Higgs bosons in extended models.
Load-bearing premise
The chosen benchmark points are representative of the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions across the parameter space allowed by current experimental constraints.
What would settle it
An absence of excess events in the same-sign dilepton and jet final state at masses near 1.2 TeV in electron-positron collisions would show that the discovery potential does not hold.
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read the original abstract
We investigate in detail the discovery potential of the doubly charged Higgs boson at the Compact Linear Collider in $e^-e^-$, $e^-\gamma$, $\gamma\gamma$, and $e^+e^-$ collision modes, within the Higgs triplet model at two extreme benchmark points as representatives of the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions. In the Yukawa-like region, the most promising production mechanism is the single production via $e^-e^-$ and $e^-\gamma$ collisions. Given the subsequent decay of the doubly charged Higgs into a same-sign lepton pair, CLIC can achieve statistical significance well beyond the discovery threshold, within the parameter space permitted by experimental constraints. In the gauge-like region, with the $\ell^{\pm}\ell^{\pm} + \geq 3j$ final state, CLIC exhibits robust discovery potential for the doubly charged Higgs boson, up to a mass of approximately $1.2~\mathrm{TeV}$. We also investigate the search for doubly charged Higgs at the HL-LHC. Our results demonstrate that CLIC possesses greater advantages and offers superior discovery potential for the doubly charged Higgs boson, compared to the HL-LHC.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper investigates the discovery potential of the doubly charged Higgs boson within the Higgs triplet model at CLIC across e^{-}e^{-}, e^{-}γ, γγ, and e^{+}e^{-} modes, as well as at the HL-LHC. It employs two extreme benchmark points to represent the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions of the allowed parameter space, reporting high statistical significances for same-sign lepton pair final states in the Yukawa-like region and robust reach up to ~1.2 TeV in the gauge-like region via the ℓ±ℓ± + ≥3j channel, concluding that CLIC offers superior discovery potential compared to HL-LHC.
Significance. If the results hold, the work would add useful collider phenomenology for extended Higgs sectors by comparing multiple CLIC operating modes against HL-LHC projections in a constrained BSM model. The explicit focus on experimentally allowed regions and different production mechanisms provides concrete guidance for future lepton collider searches.
major comments (1)
- [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims of 'robust discovery potential' up to approximately 1.2 TeV and 'superior discovery potential' relative to HL-LHC rest exclusively on results at two extreme benchmark points chosen to represent the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regimes. The HTM parameter space (v_Δ, Yukawa matrix Y, mixing angles) is multi-dimensional and subject to constraints from the ρ parameter, electroweak precision observables, neutrino oscillations, and LFV bounds; without a scan or additional intermediate points, it is unclear whether production cross sections, branching ratios (e.g., H++ → ℓ+ℓ+ vs. W+W+), or kinematic distributions remain favorable across the full allowed region, undermining the generalizability of the quoted significances and the CLIC-vs-HL-LHC comparison.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address the major comment below.
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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims of 'robust discovery potential' up to approximately 1.2 TeV and 'superior discovery potential' relative to HL-LHC rest exclusively on results at two extreme benchmark points chosen to represent the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regimes. The HTM parameter space (v_Δ, Yukawa matrix Y, mixing angles) is multi-dimensional and subject to constraints from the ρ parameter, electroweak precision observables, neutrino oscillations, and LFV bounds; without a scan or additional intermediate points, it is unclear whether production cross sections, branching ratios (e.g., H++ → ℓ+ℓ+ vs. W+W+), or kinematic distributions remain favorable across the full allowed region, undermining the generalizability of the quoted significances and the CLIC-vs-HL-LHC comparison.
Authors: The manuscript explicitly investigates the discovery potential at two extreme benchmark points chosen as representatives of the Yukawa-like and gauge-like regions of the allowed parameter space in the Higgs triplet model. These points are selected to illustrate the contrasting decay patterns and production mechanisms while satisfying all experimental constraints, including those from the ρ parameter, electroweak precision observables, neutrino oscillations, and lepton flavor violation. Although a comprehensive scan is not performed, the extreme points allow us to probe the boundaries of the phenomenology: one where same-sign dilepton decays dominate and another where gauge boson decays are prominent. Intermediate points would be expected to exhibit behaviors between these extremes. The reported significances and mass reaches are therefore specific to these benchmarks, and we maintain that they provide valuable insights into the model's discovery potential at CLIC versus HL-LHC. We will update the abstract to better emphasize that the results are based on these representative benchmark points. revision: partial
Circularity Check
No circularity: benchmark calculations are direct simulations, not reductions to inputs
full rationale
The paper selects two fixed benchmark points inside the experimentally allowed HTM parameter space and computes production cross sections, branching ratios, and statistical significances via standard Monte Carlo event generation for the listed collider modes and final states. These outputs are independent numerical results for the chosen points; no parameter is fitted to a subset of the target observables and then re-labeled as a prediction, no self-citation supplies a load-bearing uniqueness theorem, and no ansatz or definition is smuggled in. The CLIC-versus-HL-LHC comparison follows from applying the same simulation pipeline to both machines. The limited coverage of the multi-dimensional parameter space is a question of representativeness, not circularity.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (1)
- Benchmark points
axioms (1)
- domain assumption The Higgs triplet model is a valid extension of the Standard Model with a scalar triplet field.
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Doubly charged Higgs boson
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