384 research outputs found
Tests of Higgs Boson Couplings at a mu+mu- Collider
We investigate the potential of a muon collider for testing the presence of
anomalous Higgs boson couplings. We consider the case of a light (less than
) Higgs boson and study the effects on the Higgs branching ratios and
total width, which could be induced by the non standard couplings created by a
class of dim=6 gauge invariant operators
satisfying the constraints imposed by the present and future hadronic and
colliders. For each operator we give the minimal value of the
integrated luminosity needed for the muon collider () to
improve these constraints. Depending on the operator and the Higgs mass, this
minimal luminosity lies between and .Comment: 18 pages and 4 figures; version to be published in Phys. Rev.D.
e-mail: [email protected]
Testing the Higgs boson gluonic couplings at LHC
We study Higgs + jet production at hadron colliders in order to look for new
physics residual effects possibly described by the operators
{\O}_{GG} and {\widetilde\O}_{GG} which induce anomalous and
couplings. Two ways for constraining these operators at LHC may be ~useful. The
first is based on the total Higgs boson production rate induced by gluon-gluon
fusion, in which the main cause of limitations are due to theoretical
uncertainties leading to sensitivities of and
for the corresponding anomalous
couplings, in the mass range 100 GeV \lsim \mh \lsim 2~00 GeV. These results
imply sensitivity to new physics scales of 51 and 24 TeV respectively. The
second way investigated here concerns the shape of the Higgs transverse
momentum; for which the theoretical uncertainties are less severe and the
limitations are mainly induced by statistics. A simple analysis, based on the
ratio of the number of events at large and low at LHC, leads to similar
sensitivities, if only the decay mode is used. But the
sensitivities can now be improved by a factor 2 to 10, depending on the Higgs
mass, if the Higgs decay modes to , , , are also used.Comment: 23 pages and 7 figures, version to appear in Phys.ReV.D. e-mail:
[email protected]
The processes in SM and MSSM
We present the results of a complete analysis of the one loop electroweak
corrections to in the Standard (SM) and
the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). A special emphasis is put on
the high energy behaviour of the various helicity amplitudes and the way the
logarithmic structure is generated. The large magnitude of these effects, which
induce striking differences between the SM and MSSM cases at high energies,
offers the possibility of making global tests which could check the consistency
of these models, and even decide whether any additional new physics is
required.Comment: Short version (16 pages and 9 figures) of the paper hep-ph/0207273,
to appear in Phy.Rev.D. e-mail: [email protected]
Probing the Weak Boson Sector in
We study possible deviations from the standard model in the reaction at a 500 GeV collider. As a photon source we use a
laser backscattered photon beam. We investigate the most general and vertices including operators up to
energy-dimension-six which are Lorentz invariant. These vertices require four
extra parameters; two are CP-conserving, and , and two are
CP-violating, and . We present analytical expressions of
the helicity amplitudes for the process for arbitrary
values of anomalous couplings. Assuming Standard Model values are actually
measured we present the allowed region in the () plane at the
90\% confidence level. We then show how the angular correlation of the
decay products can be used to extract detailed information on the anomalous
(especially CP-violating) and couplings.Comment: Latex, 25 pages, 12 figures (not included). One compressed postscript
file including all the figures available at
ftp://ftp.kek.jp/kek/preprints/TH/TH-420/kekth420.ps.g
Effects of genuine dimension-six Higgs operators
We systematically discuss the consequences of genuine dimension-six Higgs
operators. These operators are not subject to stringent constraints from
electroweak precision data. However, they can modify the couplings of the Higgs
boson to electroweak gauge bosons and, in particular, the Higgs
self-interactions. We study the sensitivity to which those couplings can be
probed at future \ee linear colliders in the sub-TeV and in the multi-TeV
range. We find that for GeV with a luminosity of 1 ab the
anomalous and couplings may be probed to about the 0.01 level, and
the anomalous coupling to about the 0.1 level.Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures; typos corrected and references adde
Anomalous Higgs Couplings
We review the effects of new effective interactions on the Higgs boson
phenomenology. New physics in the electroweak bosonic sector is expected to
induce additional interactions between the Higgs doublet field and the
electroweak gauge bosons leading to anomalous Higgs couplings as well as to
anomalous gauge-boson self-interactions. Using a linearly realized invariant effective Lagrangian to describe the bosonic sector of
the Standard Model, we review the effects of the new effective interactions on
the Higgs boson production rates and decay modes. We summarize the results from
searches for the new Higgs signatures induced by the anomalous interactions in
order to constrain the scale of new physics in particular at CERN LEP and
Fermilab Te vatron colliders.Comment: 35 pages, latex using epsfig.sty psfig.sty and axodraw.sty, 16
postscript figure
New Physics Signatures in Dijets at Hadron Colliders
We show how to detect and disentangle at the upgraded Tevatron and at LHC,
the effects of the three purely gluonic
CP-conserving and CP-violating gauge invariant operators \ol{\O}_{DG}, \O_G
and \wtil{\O}_{G}. These operators are inevitably generated by New Physics
(NP), if the heavy particles responsible for it are coloured. We establish the
relations between their coupling constants and the corresponding NP scales
defined through the unitarity relations. We then study the sensitivity and
limits obtainable through production processes involving one or two jets, and
express these limits in terms of the NP scales implied by unitarity. A detailed
comparison with the results of the studies of the analogous electroweak
operators, is also made.Comment: 19 pages and 3 figures, version to appear in Phys.ReV.D. e-mail:
[email protected]
Hunting a light CP-violating Higgs via diffraction at the LHC
We study the central diffractive production of the (three neutral) Higgs
bosons, with a rapidity gap on either side, in an MSSM scenario with
CP-violation. We consider the bb-bar and tautau-bar decay for the light H_1
boson and the four b-jet final state for the heavy H_2 and H_3 bosons, and
discuss the corresponding backgrounds. A direct indication of the existence of
CP-violation can come from the observation of either an azimuthal asymmetry in
the angular distribution of the tagged forward protons (for the exclusive pp ->
p+H+p process) or of a sin(2phi) contribution in the azimuthal correlation
between the transverse energy flows in the proton fragmentation regions for the
process with the diffractive dissociation of both incoming protons (pp ->
X+H+Y). We emphasise the advantage of reactions with the rapidity gaps (that is
production by the pomeron-pomeron fusion) to probe CP parity and to determine
the quantum numbers of the produced central object.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Progress on a spherical TPC for low energy neutrino detection
The new concept of the spherical TPC aims at relatively large target masses
with low threshold and background, keeping an extremely simple and robust
operation. Such a device would open the way to detect the neutrino-nucleus
interaction, which, although a standard process, remains undetected due to the
low energy of the neutrino-induced nuclear recoils. The progress in the
development of the fist 1 m prototype at Saclay is presented. Other physics
goals of such a device could include supernova detection, low energy neutrino
oscillations and study of non-standard properties of the neutrino, among
others.Comment: 3 pages, talk given at the 9th Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle
and Underground Physics, Zaragoza, September 10-1
Anomalously interacting new extra vector bosons and their first LHC constraints
In this review phenomenological consequences of the Standard Model extension
by means of new spin-1 chiral fields with the internal quantum numbers of the
electroweak Higgs doublets are summarized. The prospects for resonance
production and detection of the chiral vector and bosons at
the LHC energies are considered. The boson can be observed as a
Breit-Wigner resonance peak in the invariant dilepton mass distributions in the
same way as the well-known extra gauge bosons. However, the bosons
have unique signatures in transverse momentum, angular and pseudorapidity
distributions of the final leptons, which allow one to distinguish them from
other heavy neutral resonances. In 2010, with 40 pb of the LHC
proton-proton data at the energy 7 TeV, the ATLAS detector was used to search
for narrow resonances in the invariant mass spectrum of and
final states and high-mass charged states decaying to a charged
lepton and a neutrino. No statistically significant excess above the Standard
Model expectation was observed. The exclusion mass limits of 1.15 TeV and
1.35 TeV were obtained for the chiral neutral and charged
bosons, respectively. These are the first direct limits on the and
boson production. For almost all currently considered exotic models the
relevant signal is expected in the central dijet rapidity region. On the
contrary, the chiral bosons do not contribute to this region but produce an
excess of dijet events far away from it. For these bosons the appropriate
kinematic restrictions lead to a dip in the centrality ratio distribution over
the dijet invariant mass instead of a bump expected in the most exotic models.Comment: 24 pages, 34 figure, based on talk given by V.A.Bednyakov at 15th
Lomonosov conference, 22.08.201
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