Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Berger, Edmond L.; Gao, Jun; Jueid, Adil; Zhang, Hao

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803

Title: Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Journal Article · 01 February 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803 · OSTI ID:1493109

Berger, Edmond L. ^[1]; Gao, Jun ^[2]; Jueid, Adil ^[2]; Zhang, Hao ^[3]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)

We examine Higgs boson production and decay in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and future colliders. Owing to the long lifetime of the Higgs boson, its hadronic decays may experience little or no screening from the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma whereas jets from hard scattering processes and from decays of the electro-weak gauge bosons and the top-quark suffer significant energy loss. As a result, this distinction can lead to enhanced sensitivity in hadronic decay channels and thus, for example, to the Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson to the bottom quark.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1493109

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1494705

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 122, Issue 4; ISSN 0031-9007

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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