Degenerate Higgs bosons decays to γγ and Zγ in the type II seesaw model

Using the most recent results of CMS and ATLAS, we study the Higgs decays to gamma gamma and Z gamma in the scenario where the two CP-even Higgs predicted by the type II seesaw model (Higgs triplet models) are close to mass degenerate with a mass near 125 GeV. We analyze the effects of the Higgs potential parameters constrained by the full set of perturbative unitarity, boundedness from below as well as from precision electroweak measurements on these decay modes. Our analysis demonstrates that the observed excess in the diphoton Higgs decay channel can be interpreted in our scenario within a delineated region controlled by lambda(1) and lambda(4) coupling. We also find a deviation in the Higgs decay to Z gamma with respect to the Standard Model prediction and the largest enhancement is found for a ratio R-Z gamma of the order 1.6. Furthermore we show that consistency with current ATLAS data on the diphoton decay channel favors a light doubly charged Higgs with mass in the range 92-180 GeV. Finally, we find that the gamma gamma and Z gamma Higgs decay modes are generally correlated and the magnitude of correlation is sensitive to the sign of the lambda(1) parameter.