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Collider searches of scalar singlets across lifetimes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-04-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Spin-0 singlets arise in well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. Their lifetime determines the best search strategies at hadron and lepton colliders. To cover a large range of singlet decay lengths, we investigate bounds from Higgs decays into a pair of singlets, considering signatures of invisible decays, displaced and delayed jets, and coupling fits of untagged decays. We examine the generic scalar singlet and the relaxion, and derive a matching as well as qualitative differences between them. For each model, we discuss its natural parameter space and the searches probing it.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12773,
  title  = {Collider searches of scalar singlets across lifetimes},
  author = {Elina Fuchs and Oleksii Matsedonskyi and Inbar Savoray and Matthias Schlaffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12773},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

24 pages + appendices and references, 10 figures