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Invisible Higgs in theories of large extra dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of detecting a Higgs boson in future collider experiments if large extra dimensions are realized in nature. In such a case, the Higgs boson can decay invisibly by oscillating into a graviscalar Kaluza-Klein (KK) tower. We show that the search for such a Higgs at an e+ee^+ e^- linear collider entails more complications than are usually thought of in relation to an invisibly decaying Higgs, the main sources of such complications being the simultaneous presence of a continuum graviton production and the broadening of the Higgs peak. We discuss possible ways of overcoming such difficulties, and conclude that the detection of such a Higgs boson might still be a problem beyond the mass range of 250-300 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0404056,
  title  = {Invisible Higgs in theories of large extra dimensions},
  author = {Anindya Datta and Katri Huitu and Jari Laamanen and Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0404056},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures, Latex