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Higgs decay into a lepton pair and a photon revisited

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-12-02 v2

Abstract

We present new calculations of the differential decay rates for H+γH\to \ell^+\ell^- \gamma with =e\ell=e or μ\mu in the Standard Model. The branching fractions and forward-backward asymmetries, defined in terms of the flight direction of the photon relative to the lepton momenta, depend on the cuts on energies and invariant masses of the final state particles. For typical choices of these cuts we find the branching ratios B(Heeˉγ)=5.8105B(H\to e \bar e \gamma)=5.8\cdot 10^{-5} and B(Hμμˉγ)=6.4105B(H\to \mu \bar \mu \gamma)=6.4\cdot 10^{-5} and the forward-backward asymmetries AFB(e)=0.343\mathcal{A}^{(e)}_{\text{FB}}=0.343 and AFB(μ)=0.255\mathcal{A}^{(\mu)}_{\text{FB}}=0.255. We provide compact analytic expressions for the differential decay rates for the use in experimental analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06516,
  title  = {Higgs decay into a lepton pair and a photon revisited},
  author = {Aliaksei Kachanovich and Ulrich Nierste and Ivan Nišandžić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06516},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, 8 figures, 2 ancillary files; v2: missed color factor added, plots and results changed accordingly, matches the corrected version to appear in PRD

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