Resolving SM-like scenarios via Higgs boson production at a Photon Collider: I. 2HDM versus SM

Abstract

We consider the possibility that after operations at the LHC and e^+e^- Linear Colliders a Higgs boson will be discovered, but no signal of New Physics will be found (Standard-Model-like scenario). This can occur in the Standard Model (SM) as well as in other models, including the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM), the MSSM, etc. Experiments at a Photon Collider can resolve these cases. In this paper we compare the SM and the 2HDM~(II). In the analysis we use as independent quantities the ratios, to the SM values, of couplings of the observed Higgs boson to gauge bosons, and to up and down-type quarks (basic couplings). We derive a relation between these ratios within the 2HDM~(II), a pattern relation. With the aid of this relation, different possible realizations of an SM-like scenario are found. For these realizations, we calculate the loop couplings of the Higgs boson with \gamma\gamma and Z \gamma, and also with gluons, taking into account the expected accuracy in the measurements of the basic couplings. The obtained deviation of the two-photon width from its SM value is generally higher than the expected inaccuracy in the measurement of \Gamma_{\gamma \gamma} at a Photon Collider. The result is sensitive to the parameters of the Higgs self interaction.