Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h→4l at the LHC
Abstract
We explore the sensitivity of the Higgs decay to four leptons, the so-called golden channel, to higher dimensional loop-induced couplings of the Higgs boson to $ZZ$, $$Z\gamma$$, and $$\gamma\gamma$$, allowing for general CP mixtures. The larger standard model tree level coupling $$hZ^\mu Z_\mu$$ is the dominant "background" for the loop induced couplings. However this large background interferes with the smaller loop induced couplings, enhancing the sensitivity. We perform a maximum likelihood analysis based on analytic expressions of the fully differential decay width for $$h\to 4\ell$$ ($$4\ell \equiv 2e2\mu, 4e, 4\mu$$) including all interference effects. We find that the spectral shapes induced by Higgs couplings to photons are particularly different than the $$hZ^\mu Z_\mu$$ background leading to enhanced sensitivity to these couplings. We show that even if the $$h\to\gamma\gamma$$ and $$h\to 4\ell$$ rates agree with that predicted by the Standard Model, the golden channel has the potential to probe both the CP nature as well as the overall sign of the Higgs coupling to photons well before the end of high-luminosity LHC running ($$\sim$$3 ab$$^{-1}$$).
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1155864
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1179986
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-14-048-PPD-T; LPT-ORSAY-14-13; CALT-68-2883; NUHEP-TH-14-02; -NUHEP-TH-14-02; arXiv:1404.1336
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; 1288722
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; FG02-91ER40684
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 113; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Chen, Yi, Harnik, Roni, and Vega-Morales, Roberto. Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h→4l at the LHC. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.191801.
Chen, Yi, Harnik, Roni, & Vega-Morales, Roberto. Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h→4l at the LHC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.191801
Chen, Yi, Harnik, Roni, and Vega-Morales, Roberto. Sat .
"Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h→4l at the LHC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.191801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1155864.
@article{osti_1155864,
title = {Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h→4l at the LHC},
author = {Chen, Yi and Harnik, Roni and Vega-Morales, Roberto},
abstractNote = {We explore the sensitivity of the Higgs decay to four leptons, the so-called golden channel, to higher dimensional loop-induced couplings of the Higgs boson to $ZZ$, $Z\gamma$, and $\gamma\gamma$, allowing for general CP mixtures. The larger standard model tree level coupling $hZ^\mu Z_\mu$ is the dominant "background" for the loop induced couplings. However this large background interferes with the smaller loop induced couplings, enhancing the sensitivity. We perform a maximum likelihood analysis based on analytic expressions of the fully differential decay width for $h\to 4\ell$ ($4\ell \equiv 2e2\mu, 4e, 4\mu$) including all interference effects. We find that the spectral shapes induced by Higgs couplings to photons are particularly different than the $hZ^\mu Z_\mu$ background leading to enhanced sensitivity to these couplings. We show that even if the $h\to\gamma\gamma$ and $h\to 4\ell$ rates agree with that predicted by the Standard Model, the golden channel has the potential to probe both the CP nature as well as the overall sign of the Higgs coupling to photons well before the end of high-luminosity LHC running ($\sim$3 ab$^{-1}$).},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.191801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 19,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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