# ICHEP2018 SEOUL

Jul 4 – 11, 2018
COEX, SEOUL
Asia/Seoul timezone

## Flavor Changing Neutral Higgs Interactions with Top and Tau at Hadron Colliders

Jul 5, 2018, 11:00 AM
15m
201 (COEX, Seoul)

### 201

#### COEX, Seoul

Parallel Higgs Physics

### Speaker

Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)

### Description

A general two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) is adopted to study the signature of
flavor changing neutral Higgs (FCNH) decay
$\phi^0 \to t\bar{c}+\bar{t}c$ and $\phi^0 \to \tau\mu$, where
$\phi^0$ could be a CP-even scalar ($H^0$) or a CP-odd pseudoscalar ($A^0$)
as well as $t \to c h^0$.
Measurement of the light 125 GeV neutral Higgs boson ($h^0$) couplings at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) favor the decoupling limit or the alignment limit
of a 2HDM, in which gauge boson and diagonal fermion couplings of $h^0$
approach Standard Model values.
In such limit, FCNH couplings of $h^0$ are naturally
suppressed by a small mixing parameter $\cos(\beta-\alpha)$, while the
off-diagonal couplings of heavier neutral scalars $\phi^0$ are sustained by
$\sin(\beta-\alpha) \sim 1$.
We study physics background from dominant processes with realistic acceptance
cuts and tagging efficiencies. Promising results are found for the LHC running
at 13 or 14 TeV collision energies as well as future pp colliders
at 27 TeV, or 100 TeV.

### Primary author

Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)