Growing Evidence for a Higgs Triplet
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| author | Crivellin, Andreas Ashanujjaman, Saiyad Banik, Sumit Coloretti, Guglielmo Maharathy, Siddharth P. Mellado, Bruce |
| author_facet | Crivellin, Andreas Ashanujjaman, Saiyad Banik, Sumit Coloretti, Guglielmo Maharathy, Siddharth P. Mellado, Bruce |
| contents | Despite intensive searches at the LHC, no new fundamental particle has been discovered since the discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. In general, a new physics discovery is challenging without a UV-complete model because different channels and observables cannot be combined directly and unambiguously. Moreover, without indirect hints for new particles, the parameter space to be searched is huge, resulting in diminished significance due to the look-elsewhere effect. Several LHC searches with multiple leptons in the final state point towards the existence of a new Higgs boson with a mass in the 140-160 GeV range, decaying mostly to a pair of W bosons. This dominant decay mode motivates a Higgs triplet with zero hypercharge, which also predicts a heavier-than-expected $W$-boson as indicated by the CDF-II measurement. Within this simple and predictive model, we simulate and combine channels of associated di-photon production. Considering the run-2 results of ATLAS, including those presented recently at the Moriond conference, a significance of 4.3$σ$ is obtained for a mass of 152 GeV. This is the largest statistical evidence for a new narrow resonance observed at the LHC. |
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| spellingShingle | Growing Evidence for a Higgs Triplet Crivellin, Andreas Ashanujjaman, Saiyad Banik, Sumit Coloretti, Guglielmo Maharathy, Siddharth P. Mellado, Bruce High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Despite intensive searches at the LHC, no new fundamental particle has been discovered since the discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. In general, a new physics discovery is challenging without a UV-complete model because different channels and observables cannot be combined directly and unambiguously. Moreover, without indirect hints for new particles, the parameter space to be searched is huge, resulting in diminished significance due to the look-elsewhere effect. Several LHC searches with multiple leptons in the final state point towards the existence of a new Higgs boson with a mass in the 140-160 GeV range, decaying mostly to a pair of W bosons. This dominant decay mode motivates a Higgs triplet with zero hypercharge, which also predicts a heavier-than-expected $W$-boson as indicated by the CDF-II measurement. Within this simple and predictive model, we simulate and combine channels of associated di-photon production. Considering the run-2 results of ATLAS, including those presented recently at the Moriond conference, a significance of 4.3$σ$ is obtained for a mass of 152 GeV. This is the largest statistical evidence for a new narrow resonance observed at the LHC. |
| title | Growing Evidence for a Higgs Triplet |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14492 |