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Bounds on Higgs-Portal models from the LHC Higgs data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In a number of Higgs-portal models, an SU(2)SU(2) isospin-singlet scalar boson generically appears at the electroweak scale and can mix with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson with a mixing angle α\alpha. This singlet scalar boson can have renormalizable couplings to a pair of dark matter particles, vectorlike leptons or quarks, or new gauge bosons, thereby modifying the Higgs signal strengths in a nontrivial way. In this work, we perform global fits to such models using the most updated LHC Higgs-boson data and discuss the corresponding implications on Higgs-portal-type models. In particular we find that the current LHC Higgs-boson data slightly favors the SM over the Higgs-portal singlet-scalar models, which has to be further examined using the upcoming LHC Higgs-boson data. Finally the Higgs-portal models are constrained as follows: cosα0.86\cos\alpha \gtrsim 0.86 and ΔΓtot1.9\Delta \Gamma_{\rm tot} \lesssim 1.9 MeV at 95 \% CL.

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@article{arxiv.1507.06158,
  title  = {Bounds on Higgs-Portal models from the LHC Higgs data},
  author = {Kingman Cheung and P. Ko and Jae Sik Lee and Po-Yan Tseng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06158},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages, 3 figures, references added