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Higgs Probes of axion-like particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-08-31 v1

Abstract

We study axion-like particle contributions to the Higgs boson decays. The particle is assumed to couple with the standard model electroweak gauge bosons. Although direct productions of axion-like particles have often been discussed, we investigate indirect contributions to the Higgs boson decays into fermions, photons, WW, and ZZ bosons at the one-loop level. It is found that the corrections to the fermions are suppressed, whereas precise measurements of the di-photon channel of the Higgs boson decay can provide a significant probe of the model especially when the axion-like particle is heavy and its coupling to di-photon is suppressed.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15832,
  title  = {Higgs Probes of axion-like particles},
  author = {Masashi Aiko and Motoi Endo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15832},
  year   = {2023}
}

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25 pages, 6 figures