Exotic lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays
Abstract
Exotic Higgs decays are promising channels to discover new physics in the near future. We present a simple model with a new light scalar that couples to the Standard Model through a charged lepton-flavor violating interaction. This can yield exciting new signatures, such as h → e +e +µ -µ -, that currently have no dedicated searches at the Large Hadron Collider. We discuss this model in detail, assess sensitivity from flavor constraints, explore current constraints from existing multi-lepton searches, and construct a new search strategy to optimally target these exotic, lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Theoretical Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States); Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1801835
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008541; SC0011784
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Physics
Citation Formats
Evans, Jared A., Tanedo, Philip, and Zakeri, Mohammadreza. Exotic lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep01(2020)028.
Evans, Jared A., Tanedo, Philip, & Zakeri, Mohammadreza. Exotic lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2020)028
Evans, Jared A., Tanedo, Philip, and Zakeri, Mohammadreza. Tue .
"Exotic lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2020)028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1801835.
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title = {Exotic lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays},
author = {Evans, Jared A. and Tanedo, Philip and Zakeri, Mohammadreza},
abstractNote = {Exotic Higgs decays are promising channels to discover new physics in the near future. We present a simple model with a new light scalar that couples to the Standard Model through a charged lepton-flavor violating interaction. This can yield exciting new signatures, such as h → e +e +µ -µ -, that currently have no dedicated searches at the Large Hadron Collider. We discuss this model in detail, assess sensitivity from flavor constraints, explore current constraints from existing multi-lepton searches, and construct a new search strategy to optimally target these exotic, lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep01(2020)028},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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