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Matthew Brown, University of Southampton m.s.brown@soton.ac.uk ITEP Winter School, 14 th February 2013
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Outline Framework for SM Higgs Testing BSM theories Results for – MUED Bélanger, Belyaev, Kakizaki, Pukhov [1209.0753] – 4DCHM Belyaev, Barducci, de Curtis, Moretti, Pruna [on arXiv!] Conclusions and outlook 2
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Higgs production Gluon-gluon fusion 87% Higgs Strahlung 4.8% Vector boson fusion (VBF) 7% Associate top production 0.58% 3 √s = 8 TeV M h = 125 GeV
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Higgs production 4 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections
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Higgs production 5 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections
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Higgs decay 6 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections ChannelBranching bb58 % WW22 % gg8.6 6.3 % cc2.91 % ZZ2.6 % 0.22 % (h → WW → 22ν)
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Higgs to two photons 7 -74/3 -7 : 3(2/3) 2 (4/3) -3.9 : 1 SM-like particles don’t decouple as m → ∞ Particles which get mass from elsewhere do decouple (amplitude level)
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Characterising the excess 8 CMS-HIG-12-045, conference note, Nov 2012
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If one production process dominates… If several production processes are significant we must be told efficiencies! Calculating μ 9
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Excluding BSM models 10
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Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions 1 extra dimension on S 1 /Z 2 orbifold (chiral interactions) Action 5D Lorentz invariant at cutoff scale KK photon is natural DM candidate KK partners of SM vectors and fermions contribute to loops gg → h enhanced; h → suppressed R -1 is only new parameter 11 Bélanger, Belyaev, Brown, Kakizaki, Pukhov [arxiv:1209.0753]
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Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions 12
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Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions 13
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Constraining MUED 14 Bélanger, Belyaev, Brown, Kakizaki, Pukhov [arxiv:1209.0753] 95% CL limits on parameter space Theoretical uncertainties due to radiative mass corrections
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Constraining MUED 15 Bélanger, Belyaev, Brown, Kakizaki, Pukhov (2013) [arxiv:1209.0753]
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4D Composite Higgs Model New strongly interacting sector possessing global symmetry Symmetry is spontaneously broken Four of the (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone bosons form the SM Higgs doublet Makes Higgs naturally light New top- and bottom-like quarks and W’/Z’s. Also exotically charged quarks 16 Barducci, Belyaev, Brown, De Curtis, Moretti, Pruna, in perparation
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Constraining 4DCHM 17
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Constraining 4DCHM 18
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Conclusions Higgs physics can place powerful constraints on BSM models Model dependent tests must be performed to properly test plausible models of new physics I am investigating Higgs physics of – MUED [1209.0753] – 4DCHM [on arXiv] – Technicolor models (Sasha, Mads Fandsen, Roshan Foadi, Tuomas Hapola) – E 6 SSM (Belyaev, Svantesson, Pruna) 19
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Outlook Higgs couplings are poorly resolved at present, but will errors decrease with new data Experimentalists will need to release more information (Likelihoods? Efficiencies?) as precision becomes important 20
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BACKUP SLIDES 21
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Higgs physics assumptions Negligible interference with background Narrow-width approximation – Produce on-shell Higgs (PDFs become simple factors) – Multiply by decay branching ratio (BR) to find complete pp → h → XX cross-section NWA → 1% error. Must go beyond when statistical errors fall 22 Kauer and Passarino, arXiv:1110.1613 Kauer, arXiv:1201.1667
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Excluding BSM models For n ≫ 1… Multiply likelihoods of different channels and experiments → sum exponents 23
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4D Composite Higgs Model 24 W Z
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CL s beginning of backup slides 25
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Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions 26
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