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Implications of QCD radiative corrections on high-pT Higgs searches
We discuss the effect of next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the
Higgsstrahlung process, where the Higgs boson decays to bottom quarks, using a
partonic-level fully differential code. First we evaluate the impact of
initial- and final-state gluon radiation on the reconstruction of a mass peak
with the fat-jet analysis in the boosted regime at the LHC with sqrt(s) = 14
TeV as proposed in Butterworth et al. (2008) [1]. Finally we study the current
CMS search strategy for this channel and compare it to the fat-jet procedure at
the LHC with sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Both show that final-state QCD radiation has a
sizable effect and should be taken properly into account.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, version accepted for publicatio
Implications of Higgs Searches on the Four Generation Standard Model
Within the four generation Standard Model, the Higgs couplings to gluons and
to photons deviate in a significant way from the predictions of the three
generation Standard Model. As a consequence, large departures in several Higgs
production and decay channels are expected. Recent Higgs search results,
presented by ATLAS, CMS and CDF, hint on the existence of a Higgs boson with a
mass around 125 GeV. Using these results and assuming such a Higgs boson, we
derive exclusion limits on the four generation Standard Model. For m_H = 125
GeV, the model is excluded at 99.9% confidence level. For 124 GeV <= m_H <= 127
GeV, an exclusion limit above 95% confidence level is found.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; v2: updated LHC results, refined sca
MSSM with GeV in High-Scale Gauge Mediation
After the discovery of SM-like Higgs with GeV, it is increasingly
urgent to explore a solution to the hierarchy problem. In the context of MSSM
from gauge-mediated SUSY breaking, the lower bound on gluino mass suggests that
the messenger scale is probably large if the magnitude of
TeV. In this paper, we study model with
GeV and TeV. For moderate
Higgs-messenger coupling, it will be shown a viable model with moderate fine
tuning. In this model, GeV and nearly vanishes at input
scale, which can be constructed in microscopic model.Comment: 12pp, more discussions adde
The generalised NMSSM at one loop: fine tuning and phenomenology
We determine the degree of fine tuning needed in a generalised version of the
NMSSM that follows from an underlying Z4 or Z8 R symmetry. We find that it is
significantly less than is found in the MSSM or NMSSM and extends the range of
Higgs mass that have acceptable fine tuning up to Higgs masses of mh ~ 130 GeV.
For universal boundary conditions analogous to the CMSSM the phenomenology is
rather MSSM like with the singlet states typically rather heavy. For more
general boundary conditions the singlet states can be light, leading to
interesting signatures at the LHC and direct detection experiments.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, matches published versio
The Higgs decay rate to two photons in a model with two fermiophobic-Higgs doublets
We consider a three Higgs doublet model with an symmetry in which
beside the SM-like doublet there are two fermiophobic doublets. Due to the new
charged scalars there is an enhancement in the two-photon decay while the other
channels have the same decay widths that the SM neutral Higgs. The fermiophobic
scalars are mass degenerated unless soft terms breaking the symmetry are
added.Comment: typos were corrected, the figures have been modified and the
conclusions were increased. Still contains 15 pages, 2 figure
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