The Z+photon and diphoton decays of the Higgs boson as a joint probe of low energy SUSY models

Jan, 2013
27 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 09 (2013) 043
  • Published: 2013
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Abstract: (arXiv)
In light of recent remarkable progress in Higgs search at the LHC, we study the rare decay process hZγh \to Z\gamma and show its correlation with the decay hγγh \to \gamma\gamma in low energy SUSY models such as CMSSM, MSSM, NMSSM and nMSSM. Under various experimental constraints, we scan the parameter space of each model, and present in the allowed parameter space the SUSY predictions on the ZγZ\gamma and γγ\gamma\gamma signal rates in the Higgs production at the LHC and future e+e- linear colliders. We have following observations: (i) Compared with the SM prediction, the ZγZ\gamma and γγ\gamma\gamma signal rates in the CMSSM are both slightly suppressed; (ii) In the MSSM, both the ZγZ\gamma and γγ\gamma\gamma rates can be either enhanced or suppressed, and in optimal case, the enhancement factors can reach 1.2 and 2 respectively; (iii) In the NMSSM, the ZγZ\gamma and γγ\gamma\gamma signal rates normalized by their SM predictions are strongly correlated, and vary from 0.2 to 2; (iv) In the nMSSM, the ZγZ\gamma and γγ\gamma\gamma rates are greatly reduced. Since the correlation behavior between the Z\gamma signal and the \gamma\gamma signal is so model-dependent, it may be used to distinguish the models in future experiments.
Note:
  • 28 pages, 6 figures
  • 12.60.Jv
  • 14.80.Da
  • 14.80.Ly
  • supersymmetry
  • phenomenology
  • Higgs particle
  • photon photon
  • luminosity: high
  • minimal supersymmetric standard model: parameter space
  • CERN LHC Coll