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Constraining the Georgi-Machacek Model with a Light Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-07-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the viability of a light Higgs (η\eta) scenario in the Georgi-Machacek (GM) model, where we consider all theoretical and experimental constraints such as the perturbativity, vacuum stability, unitarity, electroweak precision tests, the Higgs di-photon and undetermined decays and the Higgs total decay width. In addition, we consider more recent experimental bounds from the searches for doubly-charged Higgs bosons in the VBF channel H5++W+W+H_{5}^{++}\rightarrow W^{+}W^{+}, Drell-Yan production of a neutral Higgs boson ppH50(γγ)H5+pp\rightarrow H_{5}^{0}(\gamma\gamma)H_{5}^{+}, and for the light scalars at LEP ee+Zηe^{-}e^{+}\rightarrow Z\eta, and at ATLAS and CMS in different final states such as ppη2γpp\rightarrow\eta\rightarrow2\gamma and pphηη4γ,2μ2τ,2μ2b,2τ2bpp\rightarrow h\rightarrow\eta\eta\rightarrow4\gamma,2\mu2\tau,2\mu2b,2\tau2b. By combining these bounds together, we found a parameter space region that is significant as the case of the SM-like Higgs to be the light CP-even eigenstate, and this part of the parameter space would be tightened by the coming analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11579,
  title  = {Constraining the Georgi-Machacek Model with a Light Higgs},
  author = {Amine Ahriche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11579},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures, version includes modifications due to the erratum in https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.019902

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