2013/08/28 by Baradhwaj Coleppa, Felix Kling, Coleppa, Baradhwaj +3
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.6201
9 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2013/08/28 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/28 · arxiv updated 2013/08/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
While the conventional searches for the Higgs boson focus on its decays to Standard Model (SM) particles: gamma gamma, ZZ, WW, bb and tau tau, in this study, we explore the decays A --> HZ or H --> AZ. Such decays could appear in the exotic decay of the observed SM-like Higgs h --> AZ with a light A, or for extra Higgses in beyond the SM new physics scenarios with an extended Higgs sector. We study the exclusion bounds as well as discovery reach at the LHC for various combinations of (mA, mH) for the process: gg --> A/H --> HZ/AZ --> bbll for l =e, mu. We find that for 14 TeV LHC with 300 fb-1 integrated luminosity, the 95% C.L. limits on the cross-section for gg --> A/H --> HZ/AZ --> bbll vary between about 30 fb to a few fb for the parent heavy Higgs mass in the range 200 GeV to 600 GeV, while the limits for 5 sigma discovery are about 2-3 times larger. Comparing with the specific case of Next to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, we find that this channel could be useful for heavy Higgs searches, especially for Higgs masses below 350 GeV.