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Dimensionless Coupling of Bulk Scalars at the LHC
We identify the lowest-dimension interaction which is possible between
Standard Model brane fields and bulk scalars in 6 dimensions. The
lowest-dimension interaction is unique and involves a trilinear coupling
between the Standard Model Higgs and the bulk scalar. Because this interaction
has a dimensionless coupling, it depends only logarithmically on ultraviolet
mass scales and heavy physics need not decouple from it. We compute its
influence on Higgs physics at ATLAS and identify how large a coupling can be
detected at the LHC. Besides providing a potentially interesting signal in
Higgs searches, such couplings provide a major observational constraint on 6D
large-extra-dimensional models with scalars in the bulk.Comment: 20 page