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Exotic Lepton-Flavor Violating Higgs Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-29 v1

Abstract

Exotic Higgs decays are promising channels to discover new physics in the near future. We present a simple model with a new light scalar that couples to the Standard Model through a charged lepton-flavor violating interaction. This can yield exciting new signatures, such as he+e+μμh \to e^+ e^+ \mu^-\mu^-, that currently have no dedicated searches at the Large Hadron Collider. We discuss this model in detail, assess sensitivity from flavor constraints, explore current constraints from existing multi-lepton searches, and construct a new search strategy to optimally target these exotic, lepton-flavor violating Higgs decays.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1910.07533,
  title  = {Exotic Lepton-Flavor Violating Higgs Decays},
  author = {Jared A. Evans and Philip Tanedo and Mohammadreza Zakeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07533},
  year   = {2020}
}

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27 pages, 6 figures

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