Mixed $\text{QCD} \otimes \text{EW}$ corrections to charged Higgs pair production in THDM at electron-positron colliders

Abstract

We calculate the two-loop mixed QCD$\otimes$EW corrections for the charged Higgs boson pair production within the framework of four types of Two Higgs Doublet Models (THDMs) with the $Z_2$ symmetry. We analyze in detail the dependences of our results on physical parameters, including the charged Higgs mass, $\tan\beta$, the scattering angle, and the colliding energy. It is noticeable that the mixed QCD$\otimes$EW relative correction is independent of the scattering angle due to the topology of Feynman diagrams at $O(\alpha\alpha_s)$. Numerical results in most allowed regions of four types of THDMs are provided in the density plots on the $m_{H^{\pm}}$-$\tan\beta$ plane. For type-I and type-X, the mixed QCD$\otimes$EW relative correction varies slightly near $1\%$ except in the vicinity of resonance. For type-II and type-Y, the corrections increase consistently in large $\tan\beta$ region and reach up to $11.5\%$ at $\tan\beta = 50$. We also compute the $O(\alpha)$ corrections to obtain the corrected cross section up to $O(\alpha\alpha_s)$. The numerical results show that the corrected cross section can be larger than $80\ \mathrm{fb}$ in some parameter space region for type-I and type-X THDMs.