Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-03-19
JHEP 1106:054,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
v1: 19 pages, 5 figures; v2: References added; v3: version to appear in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP06(2011)054
A chiral fourth generation is a simple and well motivated extension of the standard model, and has important consequences for Higgs phenomenology. Here we consider a scenario where the fourth generation neutrinos are long lived and have both a Dirac and Majorana mass term. Such neutrinos can be as light as 40 GeV and can be the dominant decay mode of the Higgs boson for Higgs masses below the W-boson threshold. We study the effect of the Majorana mass term on the Higgs branching fractions and reevaluate the Tevatron constraints on the Higgs mass. We discuss the prospects for the LHC to detect the semi-invisible Higgs decays into fourth generation neutrino pairs. Under the assumption that the lightest fourth generation neutrino is stable, it's thermal relic density can be up to 20% of the observed dark matter density in the universe. This is in agreement with current constraints on the spin dependent neutrino-neutron cross section, but can be probed by the next generation of dark matter direct detection experiments.
Keung Wai-Yee
Schwaller Pedro
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