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The Higgs boson in the CP-violating NB-LSSM

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This study investigates the lightest and second-lightest Higgs bosons at around 95 GeV (which is only a hypothetical scenario) and 125 GeV respectively within the CP-violating next to minimum B-L supersymmetric model(NB-LSSM). In the NB-LSSM, the CP violation in the Higgs potential leads to the mixing mass terms between the CP-even and CP-odd Higgs fields. Thus, one has to consider a $(10 \times 10)$-dimensional mass matrix for the neutral Higgs boson. These potential mixing effects may lead to drastic variations on the neutral Higgs boson masses. Besides, the neutral Higgs bosons predicted in the NB-LSSM may strongly mix with one another, thereby significantly modifying the couplings of the Higgs bosons to the fermions or gauge bosons. It is found that the specific parameters $g_{YB}$, $\tan\beta$, $T_\kappa$, $T_\lambda, \cdot\cdot\cdot$ and CP-violating phases $\theta_{1,2,3,4,6,7,8}$ in the NB-LSSM affect the theoretical predictions on the Higgs boson mass and corresponding signal strengthes significantly. And the theoretical predictions on the signal strengthes of SM-like Higgs decay channels and excess signals at around 95 GeV are fitted well to the observed experimental data.

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Xing-Xing Dong, Wen-Hui Zhang, Cai Guo, Shu-Min Zhao, Tai-Fu Feng. 2026-03-06. The Higgs boson in the CP-violating NB-LSSM. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06162

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