Probing the Decoupled Seesaw Scalar in Rare Higgs Decay
Abstract
The Higgs boson can mix with a singlet scalar that dynamically generates the Majorana mass of the right-handed neutrino . We show that even a tiny mixing between the Higgs boson and a `decoupled' singlet scalar allows for Higgs-mediated pair production of without significant mixings between the active neutrinos and , and thus testable at colliders via a characteristic signal of two same-sign same-flavor lepton pairs, plus missing energy. We demonstrate that this search channel is mostly background-free in -collision and can be a highly sensitive probe of the Higgs-singlet mixing at the current and future colliders. Such channel provides a clean signal to discover the singlet scalar and explore the origin of neutrino masses.
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@article{arxiv.1904.12325,
title = {Probing the Decoupled Seesaw Scalar in Rare Higgs Decay},
author = {Yu Gao and Mingjie Jin and Kechen Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12325},
year = {2020}
}
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16 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables