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The Effect of Composite Resonances on Higgs decay into two photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-15 v4

Abstract

In scenarios of strongly coupled electroweak symmetry breaking, heavy composite particles of different spin and parity may arise and cause observable effects on signals that appear at loop levels. The recently observed process of Higgs to γγ\gamma \gamma at the LHC is one of such signals. We study the new constraints that are imposed on composite models from HγγH\to \gamma\gamma, together with the existing constraints from the high precision electroweak tests. We use an effective chiral Lagrangian to describe the effective theory that contains the Standard Model spectrum and the extra composites below the electroweak scale. Considering the effective theory cutoff at Λ=4πv3\Lambda = 4\pi v \sim 3 TeV, consistency with the TT and SS parameters and the newly observed HγγH\to \gamma\gamma can be found for a rather restricted range of masses of vector and axial-vector composites from 1.51.5 TeV to 1.71.7 TeV and 1.81.8 TeV to 1.91.9 TeV, respectively, and only provided a non-standard kinetic mixing between the W3W^{3} and B0B^{0} fields is included.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0286,
  title  = {The Effect of Composite Resonances on Higgs decay into two photons},
  author = {A. E. Cárcamo Hernández and Claudio O. Dib and Alfonso R. Zerwekh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0286},
  year   = {2015}
}

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30 pages, 10 figures. Version for publication in European Physical Journal C