Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Abstract
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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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
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- 1493109
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 122 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
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- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Berger, Edmond L., Gao, Jun, Jueid, Adil, and Zhang, Hao. Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803.
Berger, Edmond L., Gao, Jun, Jueid, Adil, & Zhang, Hao. Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803
Berger, Edmond L., Gao, Jun, Jueid, Adil, and Zhang, Hao. Fri .
"Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803.
@article{osti_1493109,
title = {Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {Berger, Edmond L. and Gao, Jun and Jueid, Adil and Zhang, Hao},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041803},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 4,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {2}
}
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