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Main Authors: Dawson, Sally, Roy, Arnab, Valencia, German
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09778
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author Dawson, Sally
Roy, Arnab
Valencia, German
author_facet Dawson, Sally
Roy, Arnab
Valencia, German
contents We discuss the HL-LHC sensitivity to probe new invisible particles including scalars and fermions using semi-visible Higgs decays. The kinematics of these decays allow new particle masses below $m\lesssim 50$ GeV. We carry out our analysis within the framework of a dark-SMEFT effective theory with operators up to dimension six and a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry under which the new particles are odd and the SM particles are even. We compare our results to those obtained from considering the invisible $Z$-width, as well as simple perturbative unitarity arguments. Finally, we outline kinematic strategies at the LHC to distinguish different operator structures of the postulated invisible particles.
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spellingShingle Semi-visible higgs decay as a probe for new invisible particles
Dawson, Sally
Roy, Arnab
Valencia, German
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We discuss the HL-LHC sensitivity to probe new invisible particles including scalars and fermions using semi-visible Higgs decays. The kinematics of these decays allow new particle masses below $m\lesssim 50$ GeV. We carry out our analysis within the framework of a dark-SMEFT effective theory with operators up to dimension six and a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry under which the new particles are odd and the SM particles are even. We compare our results to those obtained from considering the invisible $Z$-width, as well as simple perturbative unitarity arguments. Finally, we outline kinematic strategies at the LHC to distinguish different operator structures of the postulated invisible particles.
title Semi-visible higgs decay as a probe for new invisible particles
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09778