Below-threshold CP-odd Higgs boson search via A -> Z* h at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-10-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We study the process q q, g g -> A -> Z* h in a 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-II where the mass of the CP-odd Higgs state A is lower than the rest mass of the Z and h particles (the latter being the Standard Model-like Higgs state), i.e., mA < mZ + mh = 215 GeV. This is a mass range which is not being currently tested by ATLAS and CMS in this channel, yet we show that there can be sensitivity to it already during Runs 2 and 3, assuming leptonic decays of the gauge boson and bottom-antibottom quark ones for the Higgs boson.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.07038,
title = {Below-threshold CP-odd Higgs boson search via A -> Z* h at the LHC},
author = {E. Accomando and M. Chapman and A. Maury and S. Moretti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07038},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.07313