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The Higgs and leptophobic force at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2020, Article number: 87 (2020) Cite this article

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Abstract

The Higgs boson could provide the key to discover new physics at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate novel decays of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson into leptophobic gauge bosons which can be light in agreement with all experimental constraints. We study the associated production of the SM Higgs and the leptophobic gauge boson that could be crucial to test the existence of a leptophobic force. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to have a simple gauge extension of the SM at the low scale, without assuming very small couplings and in agreement with all the experimental bounds that can be probed at the LHC.

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  1. Physics Department and Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics (CERCA), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Pavel Fileviez Pérez, Elliot Golias & Alexis D. Plascencia

  2. Departamento de Física Teórica, IFIC, Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, E-46071, Valencia, Spain

    Clara Murgui

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Pérez, P.F., Golias, E., Murgui, C. et al. The Higgs and leptophobic force at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)087

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  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Higgs Physics