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Reconstructing Higgs boson properties from the LHC and Tevatron data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We perform a phenomenological fit to all ATLAS, CMS, CDF and D0 Higgs boson data available after Moriond 2012. We allow all Higgs boson branching fractions, its couplings to standard model particles, as well as to an hypothetical invisible sector to vary freely, and determine their current favourite values. The standard model Higgs boson with a mass 125 GeV correctly predicts the average observed rate and provides an acceptable global fit to data. However, better fits are obtained by non-standard scenarios that reproduce anomalies in the present data (more \gamma\gamma{} and less WW signals than expected), such as modified rates of loop processes or partial fermiophobia. We find that present data disfavours Higgs boson invisible decays. We consider implications for the standard model, for supersymmetric and fermiophobic Higgs bosons, for dark matter models, for warped extra-dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4254,
  title  = {Reconstructing Higgs boson properties from the LHC and Tevatron data},
  author = {Pier Paolo Giardino and Kristjan Kannike and Martti Raidal and Alessandro Strumia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4254},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures, references added, discussion clarified (e.g. fit to invisible width), fit to radion added

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