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H\to hh in the Mirror Model at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-12-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Higgs sector may play an important role in detecting the mirror particles, which can be the candidates of the dark matter and appear as missing energy in the detectors at the LHC. In this paper we worked out the Higgs boson spectrum and the Higgs couplings for the symmetric vacuum, namely v1=v2=vv_1=v_2=v, in the mirror model, and investigated the constraints from electro-weak precision observable (EWPO). Our study showed that the EWPO has already constrained the Higgs boson sector severely. We then explored the Higgs boson phenomenology, and focused on the scenario that the heavier Higgs boson HH can decay into a pair of lighter Higgs boson hh. We proposed to study the invisible decay of the Higgs boson via the pair production of them, in which one Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks and the other decays invisibly. Our detail simulation for signals and backgrounds showed that the observation of signal can reach 5σ5\sigma significance for mH=260m_H=260 GeV and mh=115m_h=115 GeV with 10fb110 fb^{-1}integrated luminosity at the LHC. Moreover the possible method to further suppress dominant ZbbˉZb\bar{b} background was discussed. We also simulated the signals and backgrounds for Hhh4bH \to h h \to 4b. Our results showed that it is very difficult to isolate the signals from huge QCD continuum backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1586,
  title  = {H\to hh in the Mirror Model at the CERN Large Hadron Collider},
  author = {Wen-sheng Li and Peng-fei Yin and Shou-hua Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1586},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, revtex4, typo corrected