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Exploring CP violation in $H \to \tau^+ \tau^- \gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-04-16 v2

Abstract

We propose a method of measuring the CP-odd part of the Yukawa interaction of Higgs boson and τ\tau leptons by observing the forward-backward asymmetry in the decay Hτ+τγH \to \tau^+ \, \tau^- \, \gamma. The source of such asymmetry is the interference of the CP-even loop-level contribution coming from HZγτ+τγH \to Z \, \gamma \to \tau^+ \, \tau^- \, \gamma decay channel with the contribution from tree-level CP-odd Yukawa interaction. We find that the CP violating effect is maximum when the invariant mass of the τ+τ\tau^+ \, \tau^- pair is equal to the mass of the ZZ boson. We propose and utilise various Dalitz plot asymmetries to quantify the maximal size of the asymmetry and perform Monte Carlo simulations to study the feasibility of measuring it in the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC).

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@article{arxiv.2311.16211,
  title  = {Exploring CP violation in $H \to \tau^+ \tau^- \gamma$},
  author = {Erlend Aakvaag and Nikolai Fomin and Anna Lipniacka and Stefan Pokorski and Janusz Rosiek and Dibyakrupa Sahoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16211},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures, For the published version see the Journal reference and DOI