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Higgs sectors extended by electroweakly charged scalars can be explored by scalar pair production at the LHC. We consider a fermiophobic scenario, with decays into a pair of gauge bosons, and a fermiophilic one, with decays into top and bottom quarks. After establishing the current bounds on simplified models, we focus on an SU(5)/SO(5) composite Higgs model. This first exploration demonstrates the need for dedicated searches at current and future colliders.
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Cacciapaglia, G., Flacke, T., Kunkel, M. et al. Exploring extended Higgs sectors via pair production at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 87 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)087
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