Higgs boson decays and production via gluon fusion at LHC in littlest Higgs models with T parity

Journal Article · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2009 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.79.055013· OSTI ID:21260107

Lei, Wang; Jinmin, Yang ^[1]

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1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100190 (China)

We study the Higgs boson decays and production via gluon fusion at the LHC as a probe of two typical littlest Higgs models which introduce a top quark partner with different (even and odd) T parity to cancel the Higgs mass quadratic divergence contributed by the top quark. For each model, we consider two different choices for the down-type quark Yukawa couplings. We first examine the branching ratios of the Higgs boson decays and then study the production via gluon fusion followed by the decay into two photons or two weak gauge bosons. We find that the predictions can be quite different for different models or different choices of down-type quark Yukawa couplings, and all these predictions can sizably deviate from the standard model predictions. So the Higgs boson processes at the LHC can be a sensitive probe for these littlest Higgs models.

• OSTI ID: 21260107
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 79; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BRANCHING RATIO
CERN LHC
COUPLING
FORECASTING
GLUONS
HIGGS BOSONS
HIGGS MODEL
MASS
PARITY
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PHOTONS
STANDARD MODEL
T QUARKS