Light Higgs boson decaying to four charm quarks

Journal Article · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.075017· OSTI ID:21409518

Bellazzini, Brando; Csaki, Csaba ^[1]; Falkowski, Adam ^[2]; Weiler, Andreas ^[3]

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1. Institute for High Energy Phenomenology, Newman Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)
2. NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 (United States)
3. CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

We present a simple supersymmetric model where the dominant decay mode of the lightest Higgs boson is h{yields}2{eta}{yields}4c, where {eta} is a light pseudoscalar and c is the charm quark. For such decays the Higgs mass can be smaller than 100 GeV without conflict with experiment. Together with the fact that both the Higgs and the pseudoscalar {eta} are pseudo-Goldstone bosons, this resolves the little hierarchy problem.

• OSTI ID: 21409518
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 81; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CHARM PARTICLES
DECAY
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GEV RANGE 10-100
GOLDSTONE BOSONS
HIGGS BOSONS
HIGGS MODEL
MASS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE DECAY
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POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUARKS
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