Triplet Higgs boson collider phenomenology after the LHC
- 23 May 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 87 (9)
Abstract
ATLAS and CMS have discovered a standard model (SM) Higgs-like particle. One of the main discovery channels is the Higgs decay to two photons, which, at the moment, seems to be considerably enhanced over the standard model expectation. Models with additional charged matter coupling to the Higgs sector can enhance or decrease the $h$\rightarrow${}$\gamma${}$\gamma${}$ branching ratio. We take this as motivation to confront the so-called Georgi-Machacek model of Higgs triplets with the results of recent searches for a SM Higgs boson performed at the LHC. We also investigate the model in regions of the allowed parameter space relevant for a SM-like phenomenology. The Georgi-Machacek model avoids tree-level issues of the $T$ parameter, while offering a vastly modified Higgs phenomenology compared to the standard model. This comes at the price of introducing another fine-tuning problem related to electroweak precision measurements. We investigate the collider phenomenology of the Georgi-Machacek model in the light of existing collider constraints beyond any effective field theory approximation and contextualize our findings with electroweak precision constraints.
Keywords
All Related Versions
This publication has 64 references indexed in Scilit:
- Higgs after the discovery: a status reportJournal of High Energy Physics, 2012
- Higgs self-coupling measurements at the LHCJournal of High Energy Physics, 2012
- Global analysis of the Higgs candidate with mass ~ 125 GeVJournal of High Energy Physics, 2012
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHCPhysics Letters B, 2012
- FeynRules – Feynman rules made easyComputer Physics Communications, 2009
- Strong and Electroweak Corrections to the Production of avia Weak Interactions at the Large Hadron ColliderPhysical Review Letters, 2007
- Higher-order soft corrections to lepton pair and Higgs boson productionPhysics Letters B, 2005
- Next-to-leading order jet distributions for Higgs boson production via weak-boson fusionPhysical Review D, 2003
- Production of Higgs bosons in proton colliders. QCD correctionsPhysics Letters B, 1991
- Higgs boson triplets with Mw=Mzcos θwPhysics Letters B, 1985