https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15520-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The Higgs boson in the CP-violating NB-LSSM
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College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, 071002, Baoding, China
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Department of Physics, Guangxi University, 530004, Nanning, China
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Hebei Key Laboratory of High-precision Computation and Application of Quantum Field Theory, 071002, Baoding, China
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Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline for Computational Physics, 071002, Baoding, China
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Departamento de Física and CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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Department of Physics, Chongqing University, 401331, Chongqing, China
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Received:
17
June
2025
Accepted:
5
March
2026
Published online:
3
May
2026
Abstract
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 
-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 
, 
, 
, 
and CP-violating phases 
in the NB-LSSM affect the theoretical predictions on the Higgs boson mass and corresponding signal strengths significantly. And the theoretical predictions on the signal strengths of SM-like Higgs decay channels and excess signals at around 95 GeV are fitted well to the observed experimental data.
The authors Xing-Xing Dong and Wen-Hui Zhang contributed equally to this work.
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