Published March 27, 2008 | Version Published + Submitted
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Discovering the Higgs through highly-displaced vertices

  • 1. ROR icon University of Washington
  • 2. ROR icon University of Wisconsin–Madison

Abstract

We suggest that the Higgs could be discovered at the Tevatron or the LHC (perhaps at the LHCb detector) through decays with one or more substantially displaced vertices from the decay of new neutral particles. This signal may occur with a small but measurable branching fraction in the recently-described "hidden valley" models, hep-ph/0604261; weakly-coupled models with multiple scalars, including those of hep-ph/0511250, can also provide such signals, potentially with a much larger branching fraction. This decay channel may extend the Higgs mass reach for the Tevatron. Unusual combinations of b jets, lepton pairs and/or missing energy may accompany this signal.

Additional Information

© 2008 Elsevier. Open access under CC BY license. Received 24 January 2008, Revised 4 February 2008, Accepted 5 February 2008, Available online 7 February 2008. We thank A. Haas, H. Lubatti, A. Nelson, S. Stone and N. Weiner for discussions. This work was supported by US Department of Energy grants DE-FG03-00ER41132 (K.Z.) and DE-FG02-96ER40956 (M.J.S.).

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Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-FG03-00ER41132
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-FG02-96ER40956

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