Laser-assisted neutral Higgs-boson pair production in Inert Higgs Doublet Model (IHDM)

Abstract

In the framework of the Inert Higgs Doublet model (IHDM), we have investigated, in the centre of mass frame, the neutral Higgs-boson pair production in the presence of an intense and circularly polarized laser field via e+e− annihilation (e+e−→H0A0) at the lowest order. By using the scattering matrix method, we have derived the analytical expression of the differential cross section. The latter is numerically integrated over the solid angle to obtain the total cross section. Then, we have shown how this total cross section depends on the outgoing particles mass for different number of exchanged photons. Next, we have illustrated its variation as a function of the centre of mass energy for different neutral Higgs-boson masses. Finally, we have indicated how it changes as a function of the laser field amplitudes for both different number of exchanged photons and different neutral Higgs-bosons masses.