Gigantic diphoton rate of heavy Higgs bosons in the aligned two Higgs doublet models with small $\tan\beta$

Abstract

We study the implications of the LHC heavy neutral Higgs search data on the aligned two Higgs doublet model with softly broken $Z_2$ symmetry. When $\tan\beta$ is small, the gluon fusion production of the heavy CP-even scalar $H^0$ or the CP-odd scalar $A^0$ becomes large enough to constrain the model by the current $\gamma\gamma$, $\tau^+\tau^-$, and $t\bar{t}$ data. By reinvestigating this small $\tan\beta$ region, we find that the indirect constraints like $\Delta\rho$, $b\to s \gamma$, $\Delta M_{B_d}$, $R_b$, $\epsilon_K$, and the perturbativity of running top Yukawa coupling are rather weak to be $\tan\beta > 0.5$. The current heavy Higgs search results are shown to put more significant bounds. If $m_H \simeq m_A$, the $t\bar{t}$ mode excludes $\tan\beta< 1.5$ for $m_{H,A}=500-600\,$GeV in all four types, and the $\gamma\gamma$ and $\tau^+\tau^-$ modes exclude $\tan\beta < 1-3$ ($\tan\beta < 3-10$) for $m_{H,A}=120-340\,$GeV in Type I, II, and Y (Type X).