Pair production of Higgs bosons associated with Z boson in the left–right twin Higgs model at the ILC

Abstract

The left–right twin Higgs (LRTH) model predicts the existence of three additional Higgs bosons: one neutral Higgs ϕ 0 and a pair of charged Higgs bosons ϕ ± . In this paper, we studied the production of a pair of charged and neutral Higgs bosons associated with standard model gauge boson Z at the ILC, i.e., e + e − → Z ϕ + ϕ − and e + e − → Z ϕ 0 ϕ 0 . We calculate the production rate and present the distributions of the various observables, such as, the distributions of the energy and the transverse momenta of final Z-boson and charged Higgs boson ϕ − , the differential cross section of the invariant mass of charged Higgs bosons pair, the distribution of the angle between charged Higgs bosons pair and the production angle distributions of Z-boson and charged Higgs boson ϕ − . Our numerical results show that, for the process e + e − → Z ϕ + ϕ − , the production rates are at the level of 10 − 1 fb with reasonable parameter values. For the process of e + e − → Z ϕ 0 ϕ 0 , we find that the production cross section are smaller than 6 × 10 − 3 fb in most of parameter space. However, the resonance production cross section can be significantly enhanced.