Is there a new scalar boson near 95 GeV?
This text mentions work from 2024 on. Those parts were partly written without a live literature search and have not been checked by an editor yet.
In plain words
Searches for extra Higgs-like particles at the LHC, and earlier at the LEP collider, show small excesses of events near 95 GeV, below the known 125 GeV Higgs. Each excess is weak by itself, and it is unknown whether they come from one real particle.
Precise statement
Run 2 diphoton searches show excesses near $m = 95.4 \mathrm{GeV}$ in CMS ($2.9\sigma$ local) and ATLAS ($1.7\sigma$ local), about $3.1\sigma$ local combined (Biekotter, Heinemeyer, Weiglein, arXiv:2306.03889); CMS also reported a ditau excess of $2.6 \text{ to } 3.1\sigma$ local at 95 to 100 GeV, and LEP a mild bb excess near 98 GeV. Determine whether a scalar S with $m_{S} \sim 95 \mathrm{GeV}$ exists, by a $\ge 5\sigma$ observation in at least one channel or exclusion of the production rates needed to fit the excesses.
What would settle it
LHC Run 3 and HL-LHC low-mass diphoton, ditau and bb searches, and a recoil-mass search for $e+ e- \to Z S$ at a Higgs factory.
Status in the literature
Unverified note: it names recent work and was partly written without a live literature search; it awaits a check by an editor.
Phenomenology papers through mid-2026 still quote a combined diphoton excess near $3\sigma$ local; no Run 3 result confirming or removing it was found in this review (moderate confidence).
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