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A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons and a photon is described. Higgs boson decays to a Z boson and a photon (H $\to$ Z$\gamma\to\ell\ell\gamma$, $\ell =$ e or $\mu$), or to two photons, one of which has an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-29 CMS Collaboration

The search for exotic Higgs decays are an essential probe of new physics. In particular, the small width of the Higgs boson makes its decay uniquely sensitive to the existence of light hidden sectors. Here we assess the potential of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-09 David Curtin , Rouven Essig , Yi-Ming Zhong

Future muon colliders will have remarkable capability for revealing and studying physics beyond the Standard Model. A first muon collider with variable c.m.\ energy in the range $\sqrt s = 100$ to 500~GeV provides unique opportunities for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Gunion

This contribution discusses the physics potential of a future muon collider operating at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 10$ TeV for precision studies in the Higgs sector. Using a detailed detector simulation that incorporates the…

In this study, assuming the Type-Y (flipped) 2HDM at the SM-like scenario as the theoretical framework, observability of the additional heavy neutral Higgs bosons $H$ and $A$ is investigated through the signal process chain $e^- e^+…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Majid Hashemi , Gholamhossein Haghighat

We report on searches for a standard model (SM) Higgs boson in $p\bar(p)$ collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV with the CDF and D0 detectors using an integrated luminosity of more than 3.0/fb. For a SM Higgs with mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-22 Michael Kirby

We propose the rare SM Higgs decay $H\to b\bar b b\bar b$ as a probe of the structure of Higgs interactions with bottom quarks and gauge bosons, and as a baseline for searches for new physics producing four-bottom final states in Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Alexander Belyaev , Eduard Boos , Vyacheslav Bunichev , Guliya Nurbakova , Saniya Rustembayeva

Higgs coupling deviations, at levels accessible to the high-luminosity LHC, can imply a phenomenological no-lose theorem for the next generation of collider facilities. Correlating Higgs coupling deviations from the SM expectation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Andrew D. Pilkington , Michael Spannowsky

A search for neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is reported. The analysis is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-06-11 ATLAS Collaboration

The observation of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson decay to a pair of bottom quarks is presented. The main contribution to this result is from processes in which Higgs bosons are produced in association with a W or Z boson (VH), and are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-26 CMS Collaboration

The rare decay modes Higgs $\rightarrow$ four light fermions, and Higgs $\rightarrow$ single top-quark + three light fermions for $m_t<M_H<2m_t$, are presented, and phenomenologically interpreted. The angular correlation between fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Heath Pois , Thomas J. Weiler , Tzu Chiang Yuan

We study the rare top-quark decay t->ch, where h is a generic Higgs boson, at a linear collider. If kinematically accessible, all models contain this decay at some level due to quark flavor mixing. Some models, such as Model III of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tao Han , Jing Jiang , Marc Sher

A search for a massive resonance W' decaying into a W and a Higgs boson in the l nu b anti-b (l = e, mu) final state is presented. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-03 CMS Collaboration

The ATLAS collaboration, using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV collisions from the Large Hadron Collider, has placed limits on the decay of a $Z$ boson to three dark photons. We reproduce the results of the ATLAS analysis, and then recast it as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Junyi Cheng , Rabia Husain , Lingfeng Li , Matthew J. Strassler

A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The dataset…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-07 CMS Collaboration

One of the primary goals of the Large Hadron Collider is to understand the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. In the Standard Model, electroweak symmetry breaking is described by the Higgs mechanism which includes a scalar Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 D. M. Asner , M. Cunningham , S. Dejong , K. Randrianarivony , C. Santamarina , M. Schram

A search is performed for pairs of light pseudoscalar bosons (a) produced from decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson ($\text{h}_{125}$). The analysis is based on publicly available data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-15 Danyer Perez Adan

We analyse the prospects to detect at the LHC the neutral Higgs particles of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, when the masses of the two CP-even $h,H$ and of the CP-odd $A$ boson are close to one another, and the value of $\tb$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Edward Boos , Abdelhak Djouadi , Alexander Nikitenko

We study chargino pair production on the heavy Higgs resonances at a muon collider in the MSSM. At $\sqrt{s} \approx 350$ GeV cross sections up to 2 pb are reached depending on the supersymmetric scenario and the beam energy spread. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 H. Fraas , F. Franke , G. Moortgat-Pick , F. von der Pahlen , A. Wagner

Extending the scalar sector of the Standard Model is a well-motivated approach to exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we investigate the phenomenology of the Three Higgs Doublet Model at a future muon collider. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Baradhwaj Coleppa , Akshat Khanna