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Light Signals from a Lighter Higgs
With the Higgs search program already quite mature, there is the exciting
possibility of discovering a new particle with rates near that of the SM Higgs.
We consider models with a signal in below the SM Higgs mass,
taking the recent (local) CMS excess at 95 GeV as a target. We
discuss singlet models with additional vectorlike matter, but argue that a
Type-I two Higgs doublet model provides a more economical scenario. In such a
setup, going into regions of moderate-to-strong fermiophobia, the enhanced
branching ratio allows signals from +VBF production to
yield comparable to total SM rates. Light
production can be dominated via rare top decays , which provides an alternate explanation of the excess.
We consider this in the context of other Higgs anomalies, namely the LEP Higgs
excess near the same mass, and excesses in searches at Tevatron and
LHC. We find that with ,
and a coupling to gauge bosons of ,
such a scenario can produce all the excesses simultanously, where arise
from contamination from the rare top decays, as previously proposed. An
implication of the Type-I scenario is that any excess should be
associated with additional elements that could reduce background, including
-jets, forward jets or signs of vector boson production.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
Quark and lepton masses from top loops
Assuming that the leptons and quarks other than top are massless at tree
level, we show that their masses may be induced by loops involving the top
quark. As a result, the generic features of the fermion mass spectrum arise
from combinations of loop factors. Explicitly, we construct a renormalizable
model involving a few new particles, which leads to 1-loop bottom and tau
masses, a 2-loop charm mass, 3-loop muon and strange masses, and 4-loop masses
for first generation fermions. This realistic pattern of masses does not
require any symmetry to differentiate the three generations of fermions. The
new particles may produce observable effects in future experiments searching
for mu to e conversion in nuclei, rare meson decays, and other processes.Comment: 29 pages; Introduction expanded, references adde
Exotic Decays of Heavy B quarks
Heavy vector-like quarks of charge , , have been searched for at the
LHC through the decays . In models where the
quark also carries charge under a new gauge group, new decay channels may
dominate. We focus on the case where the is charged under a
and describe simple models where the dominant decay mode is . With the inclusion of dark matter such
models can explain the excess of gamma rays from the Galactic center. We
develop a search strategy for this decay chain and estimate that with
integrated luminosity of 300 fb the LHC will have the potential to
discover both the and the for quarks with mass below
TeV, for a broad range of masses. A high-luminosity run can extend this
reach to TeV.Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, 3 table
Catastrophic Decays of Compactified Space-Times
Witten long ago pointed out that the simplest Kaluza-Klein theory, without
supersymmetry, is subject to a catastrophic instability. There are a variety of
string theories which are potentially subject to these instabilities. Here we
explore a number of questions: how generic are these instabilities? what
happens when a potential is generated on the moduli space? in the presence of
supersymmetry breaking, is there still a distinction between supersymmetric and
non-supersymmetric states?Comment: Typos corrected, references adde
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