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Title: Higgs couplings at high scales

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.

We study the off-shell production of the Higgs boson at the LHC to probe Higgs physics at higher energy scales utilizing the process gg → h* → Z Z . We focus on the energy scale dependence of the off-shell Higgs propagation, and of the top quark Yukawa coupling, yt (Q2). Extending our recent study [D. Goncalves, T. Han, and S. Mukhopadhyay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111801 (2018).], we first discuss threshold effects in the Higgs propagator due to the existence of new states, such as a gauge singlet scalar portal, and a possible continuum of states in a conformal limit, both of which would be difficult to discover in other traditional searches. We then examine the modification of yt (Q2) from its Standard Model (SM) prediction in terms of the renormalization group running of the top Yukawa, which could be significant in the presence of large flat extra dimensions. Finally, we explore possible strongly coupled new physics in the top-Higgs sector that can lead to the appearance of a nonlocal Q2-dependent form factor in the effective top-Higgs vertex. We find that considerable deviations compared to the SM prediction in the invariant mass distribution of the Z -boson pair can be conceivable, and may be probed at the 2σ level at the high-luminosity 14 TeV HL-LHC for a new physics scale up to O(1 TeV) , and at the upgraded 27 TeV HE-LHC for a scale up to O(3 TeV). For a few favorable scenarios, 5σ level observation may be possible at the HE-LHC for a scale of about O(1 TeV).

Research Organization:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-95ER40896
OSTI ID:
1460480
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1498925
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Vol. 98 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 14 works
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