Graviscalars from higher-dimensional metrics and curvature-Higgs mixing

Details Graviscalars from higher-dimensional metrics and curvature-Higgs mixing Graviscalars from higher-dimensional metrics and curvature-Higgs mixing

2000-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0002178v2

Nucl.Phys. B595 (2001) 250-276

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

34 pages, latex

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00686-6

We investigate the properties of scalar fields arising from gravity propagating in extra dimensions. In the scenario of large extra dimensions, proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali, graviscalar Kaluza-Klein excitations are less important than the spin-2 counterparts in most processes. However, there are important exceptions. The Higgs boson can mix to these particles by coupling to the Ricci scalar. Because of the large number of states involved, this mixing leads, in practice, to a sizeable invisible width for the Higgs. In the Randall-Sundrum scenario, the only graviscalar is the radion. It can be produced copiously at hadron colliders by virtue of its enhanced coupling to two gluons through the trace anomaly of QCD. We study both the production and decay of the radion, and compare it to the Standard Model Higgs boson. Furthermore, we find that radion detectability depends crucially on the curvature-Higgs boson mixing parameter.

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