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Polarization-dependent observables in $H\to \ell^{+}\ell^{-} \gamma$ in the SM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-01-27 v3

Abstract

The rare three body decay of a Higgs boson to a lepton-anti lepton pair and a photon has begun to attract attention, after the first evidence for the HZγH\to Z\gamma at CMS and ATLAS, which is a sub process of H+γH \to \ell^+ \ell^- \gamma . To investigate some important features of this process, we suggest that the polarized forward-backward and the photon polarization asymmetries could be useful to probe its important properties, such as the behavior of Yukawa coupling, resonance, and non-resonance contributions. Our analysis introduces a comprehensive framework to evaluate the aforementioned polarization-dependent observables. By analyzing the polarization effects of the final-state photon and lepton separately on forward-backward asymmetries, we demonstrate that loop-induced contributions play a significant role to investigate these asymmetries. Unlike the unpolarized case, where the interference effects of resonance and non-resonance effects are minimal, we show that polarization dependent observables offer a powerful tool to analyze these features of this decay mode. Furthermore, these observables can provide a handy tool for probing possible signatures of physics beyond the SM.

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@article{arxiv.2410.23685,
  title  = {Polarization-dependent observables in $H\to \ell^{+}\ell^{-} \gamma$ in the SM},
  author = {Usman Hasan and A. Uzair and M. Junaid and Bilal Tariq and Ishtiaq Ahmed and Shahin Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23685},
  year   = {2025}
}