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Probing Lepton Flavor Triality with Higgs Boson Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

If neutrino tribimaximal mixing is explained by a non-Abelian discrete symmetry such as A4A_4, T7T_7, Δ(27)\Delta(27), etc., the charged-lepton Higgs sector has a Z3Z_3 residual symmetry (lepton flavor triality), which may be observed directly in the decay chain H0ψ20ψˉ20H^0 \to \psi_2^0 \bar\psi_2^0, then ψ20(ψˉ20)li+lj (ij)\psi_2^0 (\bar\psi_2^0) \to l_i^+ l_j^- ~(i \neq j), where H0H^0 is a standard-model-like Higgs boson and ψ20\psi_2^0 is a scalar particle needed for realizing the original discrete symmetry. If kinematically allowed, this unusual and easily detectable decay is observable at the LHC with 1 fb1^{-1} for E_{cm} = 7 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0008,
  title  = {Probing Lepton Flavor Triality with Higgs Boson Decay},
  author = {Qing-Hong Cao and Asan Damanik and Ernest Ma and Daniel Wegman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0008},
  year   = {2011}
}

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