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Hunting for possible Higgs-like boson beyond the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-18 v3

Abstract

A recent preliminary investigation based on Durgut's report at the American Physical Society site shows a structure at 18.4 GeV18.4~ {\rm GeV} exists in the invariant mass distribution of Υl+l (l=e,μ)\Upsilon l^+l^- ~ (l = e,\, \mu) at the LHC center-of-mass energy of 77 and 8 TeV8~ {\rm TeV}. Its appearance attracts attention of theorists and experimentalists of high energy physics, because it might be a Higgs-like boson of 18.4 GeV18.4~ {\rm GeV} which would serve as a signal of the new physics beyond the Standard Model. We have carried out computations on the corresponding quantities (production and decay rates) based on quantum field theory and compared the results with experimental data. Our numerical results do not support the assertion that the 18.4 GeV18.4~ {\rm GeV} peak corresponds to a neutral 0++0^{++} boson which decays into Υl+l\Upsilon l^+l^-. Much further works (both experimental and theoretical) are badly needed.

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@article{arxiv.2005.04822,
  title  = {Hunting for possible Higgs-like boson beyond the Standard Model},
  author = {Xing-Dao Guo and Jian-Wen Zhu and Ren-You Zhang and Shu-Min Zhao and Wen-Gan Ma and Xue-Qian Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04822},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, 10 figures, some paragraph are added, but the conclusion remains the same, acceptance by Phys.Rev.D