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$H\to \ell\ell'$ in the Simplest Little Higgs Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Little Higgs Models are promising constructs to solve the hierarchy problem affecting the Higgs boson mass for generic new physics. However, their preservation of lepton universality forbids them to account for the HτμH\to\tau\mu CMS hint and at the same time respect (as they do) the severe limits on HμeH\to\mu e inherited from the non-observation of μeγ\mu\to e\gamma. We compute the predictions of the Simplest Little Higgs Model for the HH\to \ell\ell' decays and conclude that the measurement of any of these decays at LHC (even with a much smaller rate than currently hinted) would, under reasonable assumptions, disfavor this model. This result is consistent with our earlier observation of very suppressed lepton flavor violating semileptonic tau decays within this model.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09663,
  title  = {$H\to \ell\ell'$ in the Simplest Little Higgs Model},
  author = {Andrea Lami and Pablo Roig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09663},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, 10 figures. v2: Impact of low-energy restrictions revised with two figures added. Minor rewriting and references updated. v3: Three heavy neutrino scenario included. Version accepted by PRD