Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-02-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 20 figures
Scientific paper
The Higgs boson is predicted to have spin zero. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have recently reported of an excess of events with mass ~ 125 GeV that has some of the characteristics expected for a Higgs boson. We address the questions whether there is already any evidence that this excess has spin zero, and how this possibility could be confirmed in the near future. The excess observed in the gamma gamma final state could not have spin one, leaving zero and two as open possibilities. We calculate the angular distribution of gamma gamma pairs from the decays of a spin-two boson produced in gluon-gluon collisions, showing that is unique and distinct from the spin-zero case. We also calculate the distributions for lepton pairs that would be produced in the W W* decays of a spin-two boson, which are very different from those in Higgs decays, and argue that the kinematics of the event selection used to produce the excess observed in the W W* final state disfavours spin two.
Ellis John
Hwang Dae Sung
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