Hadronic Decays of a Higgs-mixed Scalar

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Hauptverfasser: Blackstone, Patrick J., Castellà, Jaume Tarrús, Passemar, Emilie, Zupan, Jure
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author Blackstone, Patrick J.
Castellà, Jaume Tarrús
Passemar, Emilie
Zupan, Jure
author_facet Blackstone, Patrick J.
Castellà, Jaume Tarrús
Passemar, Emilie
Zupan, Jure
contents One of the portals to new physics is a light scalar coupled to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs. In this paper we focus on hadronic decays of such a scalar in the regime where QCD dynamics is nonperturbative, resulting, e.g., in decays to pairs of pions or kaons, while also allowing for scalar couplings to the SM fermions to deviate from the Higgs-mixed light scalar limit. Representations of the corresponding form factors can be obtained using dispersive techniques, however, several sources of uncertainty affect the final results. We reexamine these decays, paying special attention to the quantification of uncertainties. For the light Higgs-mixed scalar scenario, we compare our results with previous works. For a general set of couplings of the light scalar to Standard Model fields, we provide a public code, {\tt hipsofcobra}, to compute the decay widths.
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spellingShingle Hadronic Decays of a Higgs-mixed Scalar
Blackstone, Patrick J.
Castellà, Jaume Tarrús
Passemar, Emilie
Zupan, Jure
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
One of the portals to new physics is a light scalar coupled to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs. In this paper we focus on hadronic decays of such a scalar in the regime where QCD dynamics is nonperturbative, resulting, e.g., in decays to pairs of pions or kaons, while also allowing for scalar couplings to the SM fermions to deviate from the Higgs-mixed light scalar limit. Representations of the corresponding form factors can be obtained using dispersive techniques, however, several sources of uncertainty affect the final results. We reexamine these decays, paying special attention to the quantification of uncertainties. For the light Higgs-mixed scalar scenario, we compare our results with previous works. For a general set of couplings of the light scalar to Standard Model fields, we provide a public code, {\tt hipsofcobra}, to compute the decay widths.
title Hadronic Decays of a Higgs-mixed Scalar
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13587