The LHC searches for heavy neutral Higgs bosons by jet substructure analysis

Ning Chen

Published 2016-11-24Version 1

The two-Higgs-doublet model contains extra Higgs bosons, with mass ranges spanning from several hundred GeV to about 1 TeV. We study the possible experimental searches for the neutral Higgs bosons of $A$ and $H$ at the future high-luminosity LHC runs. Besides of the conventional search modes that are inspired by the supersymmetric models, we discuss two search modes which were not quite addressed previously. They are the decay modes of $A\to hZ$ and $A/H \to t \bar t$. Thanks to the technique of tagging boosted objects of SM-like Higgs bosons and top quarks, we show the improved mass reaches for heavy neutral Higgs bosons with masses up to $\sim{\cal O}(1)\,\TeV$. The modes proposed here are complementary to the conventional experimental searches motivated by the MSSM.