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Looking through the Higgs portal with exotic Higgs decays
Jessie SheltonUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unlocking the Higgs Portal (U. Mass. Amherst)May 1, 2014
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A light SM-like Higgs is narrow
A light SM-like Higgs is narrow
• Presence of new light degrees of freedom can distort Higgs Brs by O(1) even for small couplings
Simple example: one new scalar
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A light SM-like Higgs is narrow
Simple dim-5 interaction
• Exotic Higgs decay modes easily sensitive to new physics scales significantly above a TeV
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Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC
Higgs production in gluon fusion (8 TeV): 20 pb
Accumulated data at 8 TeV: 20 ifb
If: order one acceptance, good S/B:statistics for branching fractions ~10-4
~400,000 Higgs bosons served
Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC
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CMS Preliminary -1 12.2 fb≤ = 8 TeV, L s -1 5.1 fb≤ = 7 TeV, L s
CMS indirect limits on BSM Higgs width
Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC
Unofficial combination of ATLAS and CMS (Giardino et al.);
(see also Ellis, You; Belanger et al.)
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A tough signal for a hadron machine like LHC:
...but also, many searches have not yet been done
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WH (NNLO QCD + NLO EW)
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ZH (NNLO QCD +NLO EW)
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Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC
D. Curtin, R. Essig, S. Gori, P. Jaiswal, A. Katz, T. Liu, Z. Liu, D. McKeen, JS, M. Strassler, Z. Surujon, B. Tweedie, Y-M. Zhong
Immense landscape of possibilities
Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson, arXiv:1312.4992
• Higgs portal couplings:
• Signatures depend on how HS states decay: to further HS states, back to SM
• May be: NMSSM-like, semi-invisible, high multiplicity, displaced, ...
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
• Long-standing body of work on
exotic Higgs decays, much driven by
precision EW preference for a Higgs
below the LEP bound
• Many examples fall out naturally from extended Higgs
sectors: NMSSM, EW baryogenesis, ...
• Others come from DM model building
• Genericity of Higgs portal: what are light degrees of
freedom?
Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
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Singlet Br: SM Yukawas
Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
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Singlet pair Br: SM Yukawas
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
Singlet pseudoscalar Br: SM Yukawas
Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:
consider 2HDM + complex singlet S
Type 1: SM
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type II Yukawas
Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:
consider 2HDM + complex singlet S
Type 1: SMType II: NMSSM-like
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type III Yukawas
Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:
consider 2HDM + complex singlet S
Type 1: SMType II: NMSSM-like
Type III: lepton-specific 1 2 5 10 20 50
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
1. Higgs decay to scalars
Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type IV Yukawas
Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:
consider 2HDM + complex singlet S
Type 1: SMType II: NMSSM-like
Type III: lepton-specificType IV: flipped 1 2 5 10 20 50
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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
2. Higgs decay to fermions
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Lepton number violation Nonrenormalizable
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Chiral symmetry: can be effective dim-6
Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
2. Higgs decay to fermions
Signatures depend on further fermion couplings: parameters largely independent of Higgs couplings
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light bosonic dofs?
flavored 3-body decays
Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
3. Higgs decay to vectors
h
�L = V (S) +
4S2|H|2
+✏Bµ⌫Vµ⌫
•Photon and Higgs portal
couplings with independent
strengths
•Higgs mixing: ,
•Kinetic mixing:
h ! VDVD
h ! VDZ
h ! aa
Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays
3. Higgs decay to vectors
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Relatively leptophilic!
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
• Each final state requires its own strategy.
• General observations:
• Leptonic resonances especially powerful
• Recast LHC8 analyses already place interesting limits on final states with multiple electroweak objects
• ...but results depend very sensitively on acceptance thresholds
• gluon fusion: powerful but limited
• A range of possibilities from spectacular to very hard
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`
h Resonant 4-lepton signal: spectacular ...just need to look for it!
• NMSSM-motivated 4-muon searches stop at 5 GeV
• Scrape data from Higgs searches, ZZ calibration regions
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`
CMS data, SM background: ZZ*
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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`
CMS data, SM background: ZZ* Exotic contribution
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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`
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95% CL limits
ATLAS ZZ control region
CMS Higgs
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1A: .
95% CL limits
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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 1A: .h ! ZVD ! 4`
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Further possibilities:
h ! ss ! 4ZD
more complicated HS cascades...
h ! ZDZD ! exotic
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 2: . h ! aa ! 4⌧, 2⌧2µ
Exclusions from multilepton searches
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 2: . h ! aa ! 4⌧, 2⌧2µ
Gain from sharp resonance in muons, despite lower BR [Lisanti & Wacker]
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 2A: METh ! �2�2 ! 4`+
Best existing limits from inclusive many-bin CMS multi-lepton searches:
Br(h ! �2�2) < 12%
(SUS-12-027, SUS-13-010) (includes Z Br and is highly spectrum-dependent)
•Most multi-lepton analyses specialized for high-pT signals
•Can further target analyses to Higgs kinematics
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Estimated 95% CL limits on allowed Br
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Best limits: GMSB search (CMS SUS-12-018)
• 4 ifb, not optimized for Higgs signal
Example 2B: METh ! �2�2 ! 2�+
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GMSB neutralinosextended DM sector with dipole
Estimated 95% CL reach
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
Example 3: .h ! ss ! 2b2µ
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Max.Br#h"aa"bb#$#!$
8 TeV LHC, L%25 fb!1
At least one b!tagTwo b!tagsNo b!tag
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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa
Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays
LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa
• The observed 125 GeV Higgs boson is highly sensitive to the potential existence of new light degrees of freedom
• Many interesting results/prospects at LHC8 already
• Light (pseudo-)scalars: still difficult
• Great statistical power from LHC 14: Higgs factory
• but reduced acceptance for low-pT objects may limit reach
• Important to remember for LHC 14: many physics opportunities at low pT
Summary and Conclusions