Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-10-25
Phys.Rev.D77:055012,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.055012
The Little Higgs mechanism, as realized in various models, requires a set of new massive gauge bosons, some of which mix with gauge bosons of the Standard Model. For a range of mixing angles the coupling of gauge bosons to scalars can become strong, ultimately resulting in a breakdown of perturbative calculation. This phenomenon is studied in the Littlest Higgs model, where the approach to strong dynamics is characterized by increasing tree-level decay widths of the neutral Z_H boson to lighter gauge bosons plus multiple scalars. These increasing widths suggest a distinctive qualitative collider signature for the approach to the strong coupling regime of large Higgs and other scalar multiplicities. In this work we catalog the kinematically allowed three-body decays of the Z_H, and calculate the partial width of the process Z_H to Z_L H H. This partial width is found to be larger than the comparable two-body decay Z_H to Z_L H for values of the SU(2) mixing angle cosine(theta) less than 0.13, indicating divergence of the littlest Higgs sigma field expansion at values of cosine(theta) larger than a simple parametric calculation would suggest. Additionally, we present analytical expressions for all two-body decays of the Littlest Higgs Z_H gauge boson, including the effects of all final-state masses.
Boersma John
Whitbeck Andrew
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