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Composite Higgs to two Photons and Gluons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We introduce a simple framework to estimate the composite Higgs boson coupling to two-photon in Technicolor extensions of the standard model. The same framework allows us to predict the composite Higgs to two-gluon process. We compare the decay rates with the standard model ones and show that the corrections are typically of order one. We suggest, therefore, that the two-photon decay process can be efficiently used to disentangle a light composite Higgs from the standard model one. We also show that the Tevatron results for the gluon-gluon fusion production of the Higgs either exclude the techniquarks to carry color charges to the 95% confidence level, if the composite Higgs is light, or that the latter must be heavier than around 200 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1102.2920,
  title  = {Composite Higgs to two Photons and Gluons},
  author = {Tuomas Hapola and Francesco Sannino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2920},
  year   = {2015}
}

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RevTex 7 pages, 6 figures

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