Potential of Photon Collider in resolving SM-like scenarios

Ilya F. Ginzburg, Maria Krawczyk, Per Osland

Published 2001-01-20Version 1

After operations at the LHC and e^+e^- Linear Colliders it may be found that a Standard-Model-like scenario is realized. In this scenario no new particle will be discovered, except a single Higgs boson having partial widths or coupling constants squared with fundamental particles close, within anticipated experimental uncertainty, to those of the SM. Experiments at a Photon Collider can resolve whether the SM model or e.g. the Two Higgs Doublet Model is realized in Nature. For the SM-like version of the 2HDM (II) we study the loop couplings of the Higgs boson with \gamma\gamma and Z \gamma, and also with gluons. The 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.