20 research outputs found
Higgs production as a probe of anomalous top couplings
The LHC may be currently seeing the first hints of the Higgs boson. The
dominant production mode for the Higgs at the LHC involves a top-quark loop. An
accurate measurement of Higgs production cross-sections and decay widths can
thus be used to obtain limits on anomalous top couplings. We find that such an
exercise could potentially yield constraints that are stronger than those
derived from low-energy observables as well as direct bounds expected from the
top pair-production process.Comment: Version published in JHE
Decoupling property of the supersymmetric Higgs sector with four doublets
In supersymmetric standard models with multi Higgs doublet fields,
selfcoupling constants in the Higgs potential come only from the D-terms at the
tree level. We investigate the decoupling property of additional two heavier
Higgs doublet fields in the supersymmetric standard model with four Higgs
doublets. In particular, we study how they can modify the predictions on the
quantities well predicted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM),
when the extra doublet fields are rather heavy to be measured at collider
experiments. The B-term mixing between these extra heavy Higgs bosons and the
relatively light MSSM-like Higgs bosons can significantly change the
predictions in the MSSM such as on the masses of MSSM-like Higgs bosons as well
as the mixing angle for the two light CP-even scalar states. We first give
formulae for deviations in the observables of the MSSM in the decoupling region
for the extra two doublet fields. We then examine possible deviations in the
Higgs sector numerically, and discuss their phenomenological implications.Comment: 26 pages, 24 figures, text sligtly modified,version to appear in
Journal of High Energy Physic
PDF dependence of Higgs cross sections at the Tevatron and LHC: response to recent criticism
We respond to some criticism questioning the validity of the current Standard
Model Higgs exclusion limits at the Tevatron, due to the significant dependence
of the dominant production cross section from gluon-gluon fusion on the choice
of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the strong coupling (alpha_S). We
demonstrate the ability of the Tevatron jet data to discriminate between
different high-x gluon distributions, performing a detailed quantitative
comparison to show that fits not explicitly including these data fail to give a
good description. In this context we emphasise the importance of the consistent
treatment of luminosity uncertainties. We comment on the values of alpha_S
obtained from fitting deep-inelastic scattering data, particularly the
fixed-target NMC data, and we show that jet data are needed for stability. We
conclude that the Higgs cross-section uncertainties due to PDFs and alpha_S
currently used by the Tevatron and LHC experiments are not significantly
underestimated, contrary to some recent claims.Comment: 44 pages, 19 figures. v2: version published in JHEP (paragraph added
at bottom of p.15
NSUSY fits
We perform a global fit to Higgs signal-strength data in the context of light
stops in Natural SUSY. In this case, the Wilson coefficients of the higher
dimensional operators mediating g g -> h and h -> \gamma \gamma, given by c_g,
c_\gamma, are related by c_g = 3 (1 + 3 \alpha_s/(2 \pi)) c_\gamma/8. We
examine this predictive scenario in detail, combining Higgs signal-strength
constraints with recent precision measurements of m_W, b-> s \gamma constraints
and direct collider bounds on weak scale SUSY, finding regions of parameter
space that are consistent with all of these constraints. However it is
challenging for the allowed parameter space to reproduce the observed Higgs
mass value with sub-TeV stops. We discuss some of the direct stop discovery
prospects and show how global Higgs fits can be used to exclude light stop
parameter space difficult to probe by direct collider searches. We determine
the current status of such indirect exclusions and estimate their reach by the
end of the 8 TeV LHC run.Comment: 41 pages, 13 figures. v3: final JHEP version, b to s gamma updated to
latest data and typos correcte
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