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Title: On-shell interference effects in Higgs boson final states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). High Energy Physics Division; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Durham Univ. (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics. Inst. for Particle Physics Phenomenology

Top quark loops in Higgs production via gluon fusion at large invariant final state masses can induce important interference effects in searches for additional Higgs bosons as predicted in, e.g., Higgs portal scenarios and the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model when the heavy scalar is broad or the final state resolution is poor. Currently, the limit setting as performed by both ATLAS and CMS is based on injecting a heavy Higgs-like signal neglecting interference effects. In this study, we perform a study of such “on-shell” interference effects in pp → ZZ and find that they lead to a ≲O(30%) width scheme-dependent modification of the signal strength. Finally, including the continuum contributions to obtain, e.g., the full pp → ZZ → 4l final state, this modification is reduced to the 10% level in the considered intermediate mass range.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Durham Univ. (United Kingdom)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); European Commission (EC)
Contributing Organization:
Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; SC0010143; PITN-GA-2012-316704
OSTI ID:
1349064
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1180131
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 7; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 18 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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