Production of charged Higgs boson pairs in the $pp\to pp{H}^{+}{H}^{-}$ reaction at the LHC and FCC

Abstract

We present differential cross sections for the $pp\to pp{H}^{+}{H}^{-}$ reaction via photon-photon fusion with exact kinematics. We show predictions for $\sqrt{s}$ = 14 TeV (LHC) and at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) for $\sqrt{s}$ = 100 TeV. The integrated cross section for $\sqrt{s}$ = 14~TeV (LHC) is about 0.1~fb and about 0.9~fb at the FCC for $\sqrt{s}$ = 100~TeV when assuming $m_{H^{\pm }}=150$~GeV. We present distributions in diHiggs boson invariant mass. The results are compared with those obtained within equivalent-photon approximation. We discuss also first calculations of cross section for exclusive diffractive pQCD mechanism with estimated limits on the $g_{h{H}^{+}{H}^{-}}$ coupling constant within 2HDM based on the LHC experimental data. The diffractive contribution is much smaller than the $\gamma \gamma$ one. Absorption corrections are calculated differentially for various distributions. In general, they lead to a damping of the cross section. The damping depends on $M_{H^{+}{H}^{-}}$ invariant mass and on four-momentum transfers squared in the proton line. We discuss a possibility to measure the exclusive production of $H^{\pm }$ bosons.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, presented by P. Lebiedowicz at The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 22-29 July 2015, Vienna, Austria