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Anomalous Higgs Boson Production and Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

A non-standard symmetry breaking sector may lead to derivative couplings of the Higgs boson and thereby to anomalous interactions with the electroweak gauge bosons. In the framework of gauge-invariant effective Lagrangians the resulting changes in Higgs boson production and decay mechanisms are related to anomalous triple vector boson couplings. Using low energy constraints on the dimension-six operators in the effective Lagrangian, we discuss the size of deviations from SM predictions which may be expected in Higgs boson production and decay rates. Large enhancements are allowed {\it e.g.} in the ZHγZ \to H \gamma and HγγH\to \gamma \gamma partial decay widths, leading to ZγγγZ\to \gamma\gamma\gamma events at LEP.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9308347,
  title  = {Anomalous Higgs Boson Production and Decay},
  author = {K. Hagiwara and R. Szalapski and D. Zeppenfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9308347},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages. Uses RevTEX. Four figures available upon request from [email protected] or [email protected]