38 research outputs found
Top-quark mass effects in double and triple Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion at NLO
Effect of mutations to amino acid A301 and F361 in thermostability and catalytic activity of the β-galactosidase from Bacillus subtilis VTCC-DVN-12-01
Singlet extensions of the standard model at LHC Run 2: benchmarks and comparison with the NMSSM
The Complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) is the simplest extension that provides scenarios for Higgs pair production with different masses. The model has two interesting phases: the dark matter phase, with a Standard Model-like Higgs boson, a new scalar and a dark matter candidate; and the broken phase, with all three neutral scalars mixing. In the latter phase Higgs decays into a pair of two different Higgs bosons are possible.
In this study we analyse Higgs-to-Higgs decays in the framework of singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), with focus on the CxSM. After demonstrating that scenarios with large rates for such chain decays are possible we perform a comparison between the NMSSM and the CxSM. We find that, based on Higgs-to-Higgs decays, the only possibility to distinguish the two models at the LHC run 2 is through final states with two different scalars. This conclusion builds a strong case for searches for final states with two different scalars at the LHC run 2.
Finally, we propose a set of benchmark points for the real and complex singlet extensions to be tested at the LHC run 2. They have been chosen such that the discovery prospects of the involved scalars are maximised and they fulfil the dark matter constraints. Furthermore, for some of the points the theory is stable up to high energy scales. For the computation of the decay widths and branching ratios we developed the Fortran code sHDECAY, which is based on the implementation of the real and complex singlet extensions of the SM in HDECAY
On-shell neutral Higgs bosons in the NMSSM with complex parameters
The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard model (NMSSM) appears as an
interesting candidate for the interpretation of the Higgs-measurement at the
LHC and as a rich framework embedding physics beyond the Standard Model. We
consider the renormalization of the Higgs sector of this model in its
-violating version, and propose a renormalization scheme for the
calculation of on-shell Higgs masses. Moreover, the connection between the
physical states and the tree-level ones is no longer trivial at the radiative
level: a proper description of the corresponding transition thus proves
necessary in order to calculate Higgs production and decays at a consistent
loop order. After discussing these formal aspects, we compare the results of
our mass calculation to the output of existing tools. We also study the
relevance of the on-shell transition-matrix in the example of the width. We find deviations between our full prescription and
popular approximations that can exceed .Comment: 28 pages, 11 figure