Rick S. Gupta, James D. Wells
The existence of exotic scalars that mix with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs
boson can affect Higgs boson phenomenology in a multitude of ways. We consider
two light Higgs bosons with shared couplings to SM fields and with masses close
to each other, in the range where the h \to WW \to l \nu l \nu is an important
search channel. In this channel, we do not find the dilution of significance of
the `SM-like' Higgs boson that is naively expected because of the mixing. This
is because of leakage of events from the decay of the other scalar into its
signal region. Nevertheless, we show that the broadening of the h\to WW \to l
\nu l \nu significance plots of Standard Model Higgs boson searches could
indicate the first evidence of the the extra scalar state.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0824
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