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The Invisible Higgs Decay Width in the Add Model at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Assuming flat universal extra dimensions, we demonstrate that for a light Higgs boson the process ppWW+XHiggs,graviscalars+Xinvisible+Xpp\to W^*W^* +X \to Higgs,graviscalars +X \to invisible+X will be observable at the 5σ5 \sigma level at the LHC for the portion of the Higgs-graviscalar mixing (ξ\xi) and effective Planck mass (MDM_D) parameter space where channels relying on visible Higgs decays fail to achieve a 5σ5 \sigma signal. Further, we show that even for very modest values of ξ\xi the invisible decay signal probes to higher MDM_D than does the (ξ\xi-independent) jets/\gam\gam + missing energy signal from graviton radiation. We also discuss various effects, such as Higgs decay to two graviscalars, that could become important when mh/MDm_h/M_D is of order 1.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402062,
  title  = {The Invisible Higgs Decay Width in the Add Model at the LHC},
  author = {M. Battaglia and D. Dominici and J. F. Gunion and J. D. Wells},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402062},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the Les Houches Workshop 2003: ``Physics at TeV Colliders'', ed. F. Boudjema