Anomalous Higgs boson production and decay

Aug, 1993
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 318 (1993) 155-162
e-Print:
Report number:
  • MAD-PH-783,
  • KEK-TH-370

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Abstract:
A non-standard symmetry breaking sector may lead to derivative couplings of the Higgs boson and thereby to anomalous interactions with the electroweak gauge bosons. In the framework of gauge-invariant effective Lagrangians the resulting changes in Higgs boson production and decay mechanisms are related to anomalous triple vector boson couplings. Using low energy constraints on the dimension-six operators in the effective Lagrangian, we discuss the size of deviations from SM predictions which may be expected in Higgs boson production and decay rates. Large enhancements are allowed {\it e.g.} in the ZHγZ \to H \gamma and HγγH\to \gamma \gamma partial decay widths, leading to ZγγγZ\to \gamma\gamma\gamma events at LEP. Uses RevTEX. Four figures available upon request from szalapski@pheno.physics.wisc.edu or szalapski@wiscphen.bitnet.
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • symmetry breaking: electroweak interaction
  • Z0: radiative decay
  • radiative decay: Z0
  • Higgs particle: radiative decay
  • radiative decay: Higgs particle
  • effective Lagrangian
  • invariance: gauge
  • coupling: (3gauge boson)
  • (3gauge boson): coupling