Two-Higgs-Doublet Models and Enhanced Rates for a 125 GeV Higgs

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We examine the level of enhancement that can be achieved in the ZZ and \gamma\gamma channels for a two-Higgs-doublet model Higgs boson (either the light h or the heavy H) with mass near 125 GeV after imposing all constraints from LEP data, B physics, precision electroweak data, vacuum stability, unitarity and perturbativity.

• The latter constraints restrict substantially the possibilities for enhancing the gg -> h -> \gamma\gamma or gg -> H -> \gamma\gamma signal relative to that for the SM Higgs, hSM.
• Further, we find that a significant enhancement of the gg -> h -> \gamma\gamma or gg -> H -> \gamma\gamma signal in Type II models is possible only if the gg -> h -> ZZ or gg -> H -> ZZ mode is even more enhanced, a situation disfavored by current data.
• In contrast, in the Type I model one can achieve enhanced rates in the \gamma\gamma final state for the h while having the ZZ mode at or below the SM rate - the largest [gg -> h -> \gamma\gamma]/[gg -> hSM -> \gamma\gamma] ratio found is of order ~1.3 when the two Higgs doublet vacuum expectation ratio is tan\beta = 4 or 20 and the charged Higgs boson has its minimal LEP-allowed value of m_{H^\pm} = 90 GeV.