Abstract
We study the signal rates of the second lightest CP-even Higgs boson, h(2), of the NMSSM produced in gluon fusion, in association with bottom quarks and in association with top quarks, which is not the SM-like Higgs boson, at the LHC. We evaluate the production rates of h(2) in the SM fermionic and bosonic final states in addition to a(1)a(1), h(1)h(1) and Za(1) final states. It is observed that the size of the signal rates in some regions of the NMSSM parameter space is quite large and that could help extracting h(2) signals at the LHC through a variety of decay channels.