Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-12-19
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
The LHC is well on track toward the discovery or exclusion of a light Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson. Such a Higgs has a very small SM width and can easily have large branching fractions to physics beyond the SM, making Higgs decays an excellent opportunity to observe new physics. Decays into collider-invisible particles are particularly interesting as they are theoretically well motivated and relatively clean experimentally. In this work we estimate the potential of the 7 TeV LHC to observe an invisible Higgs branching fraction. We analyze three channels that can be used to directly study the invisible Higgs branching ratio at the 7 TeV LHC: an invisible Higgs produced in association with (i) a hard jet; (ii) a leptonic Z; and (iii) forward tagging jets. We find that the last channel, where the Higgs is produced via weak boson fusion, is the most sensitive, allowing branching fractions as small as 40% to be probed at 20 inverse fb for masses in the range between 120 and 170 GeV, including in particular the interesting region around 125 GeV. We further estimate the discovery potential at the 7 TeV LHC for cases where the Higgs has substantial branching fractions to both visible and invisible final states.
Bai Yang
Draper Patrick
Shelton Jessie
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