Probing New Physics in Higgs Couplings to Fermions using an Angular Analysis

Jul 2, 2014
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 736 (2014) 421-427
  • Published: Sep 7, 2014
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Report number:
  • UDEM-GPP-TH-14-236,
  • UMISS-HEP-2014-02

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The standard-model Higgs boson couples to quarks through a parity-even scalar Hqq¯ coupling. We show that the rare Higgs decay H→VZ , where V is a vector quarkonium state such as J/ψ ( cc¯ ) or ϒ(1S) ( bb¯ ), can be used to search for the presence of a parity-odd pseudoscalar Hqq¯ coupling. Since both V and Z can decay to a pair of charged leptons, this presents an experimentally-clean channel that can be observed at the high-luminosity LHC or a future hadron collider. The P-even and P-odd Hqq¯ couplings can be measured by analyzing the angular distribution of the final-state leptons.
Note:
  • 15 pages, 2 figures, version published in Phys. Lett. B
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Higgs particle: coupling
  • Higgs particle: decay
  • quark: coupling
  • coupling: Higgs
  • parity: negative
  • parity: violation
  • quarkonium: production
  • quarkonium: leptonic decay
  • Z0: production