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Lepton Flavor-Violating Higgs Decays Mediated by Ultralight Gauge Boson

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-12-17 v2

Abstract

We present an analysis of the lepton-flavor violating decay of the Higgs boson mediated by an ultralight gauge boson, χ\chi. Our analysis matches a model generating the lepton flavor-violating interaction ˉijχ\bar{\ell}_i\ell_j\chi at tree level with an effective field theory, safeguarding a physical massless χ\chi-boson limit of the observables. By utilizing the upper bounds on HiˉjH\to\ell_i \bar\ell_j decays from CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, we establish an indirect upper limit on the nonstandard decay HiˉjχH\to\ell_i \bar\ell_j\chi. The analysis encompasses various observables such as the lepton energy spectrum, Dalitz plot distribution, and Lepton Charge and Forward-Backward Asymmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2406.17040,
  title  = {Lepton Flavor-Violating Higgs Decays Mediated by Ultralight Gauge Boson},
  author = {Marcela Marín and R. Gaitán and R. Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17040},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages, 8 figures. Extended discussion. Matches published version