Associated Production of Non-Standard Higgs Bosons at the LHC

Feb, 2011
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 83 (2011) 115004
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We discuss the feasibility of seeing a Higgs boson which decays to four partons through a pair of (pseudo-)scalars at the LHC. We restrict our search to Higgs bosons produced in association with a W/Z boson at high transverse momentum. We argue that subjet analysis techniques are a good discriminant between such events and W/Z plus jets and top-antitop production. For light scalar masses (below 30 GeV), we find evidence that a flavor-independent search for such a non-standard Higgs boson is plausible with 100 fb^-1 of data, while a Higgs decaying to heavier scalars is only likely to be visible in models where scalar decays to b quarks dominate.
  • 14.80.Va
  • 14.80.Ec
  • 14.80.Da
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • mass: scalar
  • transverse momentum: high
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • field theory: scalar
  • Higgs particle: decay
  • Higgs particle: mass