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Neutrino Mass and Missing Momentum Higgs Boson Signals

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-17 v2

Abstract

In the simplest scheme for neutrino masses invoking a triplet of Higgs scalars there are two CP-even neutral Higgs bosons HiH_i (i=1,2) and one massive pseudoscalar AA. For some choices of parameters, the lightest H1H_1 may be lighter than the Standard Model Higgs boson. If the smallness of neutrino mass is due to the small value of the triplet expectation value, as expected in a seesaw scheme, the Higgs bosons may decay dominantly to the invisible neutrino channel. We derive limits on Higgs masses and couplings that follow from LEP I precision measurements of the invisible Z width.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9712487,
  title  = {Neutrino Mass and Missing Momentum Higgs Boson Signals},
  author = {M. A. Diaz and M. A. Garcia-Jareno and D. A. Restrepo and J. W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9712487},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, ReVTeX, small explanatory notes added