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Recent CMS analyses report an excess in the diphoton-plus-$b \bar{b}$ channel, indicative of a heavy resonance around 650 GeV decaying into a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson and a lighter scalar near 95 GeV. The case for a 95 GeV state is further supported by diphoton excesses observed by both CMS and ATLAS, as well as a $b\bar{b}$ excess previously observed at the Large Electron-Position collider. This study presents a unified interpretation of these anomalies within the framework of the General Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model that naturally accommodates a light singlet-dominated $CP$-even scalar boson $h_s$ near 95 GeV and a heavier doublet-like scalar boson $A_H$ near 650 GeV.
Through a comprehensive scan of the parameter space, we demonstrate that the model can explain these excesses at $2\,\sigma$ level while satisfying constraints from the dark matter relic density, direct detection experiments, the properties of the 125 GeV Higgs boson, $B$-physics observables, and searches for electroweakinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The interpretation features a Bino-dominated lightest neutralino as the dark matter candidate, whose relic abundance is achieved primarily via $A_s$ funnel annihilation or coannihilation with $\tilde{S}$-like $\tilde{\chi}^0_2$s into $h_sA_H$ final states. Our findings provide clear predictions for testing this scenario at the high-luminosity LHC and future colliders.
