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CP-violating Higgs boson ditau decays: Baryogenesis and Higgs factories

  • 1. ROR icon Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

We demonstrate how probes of CP-violating observables in Higgs boson ditau decays at prospective future lepton colliders could provide a test of weak scale baryogenesis with significant discovery potential. Measurements at the Circular Electron Positron Collider, for example, could exclude a CP phase larger than 2.9° (5.6°) at 68% (95%) C.L. assuming the Standard Model value for magnitude of the tau lepton Yukawa coupling. Conversely, this sensitivity would allow for a 5σ discovery for 82% of the CP phase range [0,2π). The reaches of the Future Circular Collider for electrons and positrons (FCC-ee) and International Linear Collider are comparable. As a consequence, future lepton colliders could establish the presence of CP violation required by lepton flavored electroweak baryogenesis with at least 3σ sensitivity. Our results illustrate that Higgs factories are not just precision machines, but can also make O(1) measurement of the new physics beyond the Standard Model.

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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. (Received 22 January 2021; accepted 26 March 2021; published 26 May 2021) S. F. G. is sponsored by the Double First Class start-up fund (WF220442604) provided by Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Shanghai Pujiang Program (20PJ1407800), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12090064). S. F. G. is also grateful to Kai Ma for sharing his Ph.D. thesis with derivations on the differential distribution of the τ→πν_τ decay as well as Manqi Ruan, Xin Chen, and Dan Yu for useful discussions. G. L. would like to thank Shou-hua Zhu for helpful discussions. M. J. R. M. was supported in part under National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 19Z103010239. G. L. and M. J. R. M. were supported in part under U.S. Department of Energy Award No. DE-SC0011095. This work is also supported in part by Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP).

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Alternative title
CP-violating Higgs Di-tau Decays: Baryogenesis and Higgs Factories

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Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
WF220442604
Shanghai Pujiang Program
20PJ1407800
National Natural Science Foundation of China
12090064
National Natural Science Foundation of China
19Z103010239
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-SC0011095
CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics
SCOAP3

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