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On the $ZH\eta$ vertex in the simplest Little Higgs Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-04-05 v3

Abstract

The issue of deriving ZHηZH\eta vertex in the simplest Little Higgs (SLH) model is revisited. Special attention is paid to the treatment of non-canonically-normalized scalar kinetic matrix and vector-scalar two-point transitions. We elucidate a general procedure to diagonalize a general vector-scalar system in gauge theories and apply it to the case of SLH. The resultant ZHηZH\eta vertex is found to be different from those which have already existed in the literature for a long time. We also present an understanding of this issue from an effective field theory viewpoint.

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@article{arxiv.1709.08929,
  title  = {On the $ZH\eta$ vertex in the simplest Little Higgs Model},
  author = {Shi-Ping He and Ying-nan Mao and Chen Zhang and Shou-hua Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08929},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted version by PRD; 11 pages with two columns; Presentation of Sec. II refined; EFT analysis added in Sec. IIIC; References updated