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Dark Higgs Bosons at FASER

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-04-26 v2

Abstract

FASER, ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC, has been proposed as a small, very far forward detector to discover new, light, weakly-coupled particles. Previous work showed that with a total volume of just 0.11 m3\sim 0.1 - 1~\rm{m}^3, FASER can discover dark photons in a large swath of currently unconstrained parameter space, extending the discovery reach of the LHC program. Here we explore FASER's discovery prospects for dark Higgs bosons. These scalar particles are an interesting foil for dark photons, as they probe a different renormalizable portal interaction and are produced dominantly through BB and KK meson decays, rather than pion decays, leading to less collimated signals. Nevertheless, we find that FASER is also a highly sensitive probe of dark Higgs bosons with significant discovery prospects that are comparable to, and complementary to, much larger proposed experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09387,
  title  = {Dark Higgs Bosons at FASER},
  author = {Jonathan L. Feng and Iftah Galon and Felix Kling and Sebastian Trojanowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09387},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

22 pages, 7 figures. V.2: added discussion

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