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Search for Exotic Higgs Boson Decays to Merged Diphotons

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In this chapter, we provide a basic theoretical basis for the physics search performed in this analysis. In Sect. 3.1, we introduce the standard model of particle physics (SM), currently the best available theory for the interaction of the known fundamental particles.

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    If working in a regime where a perturbative expansion is valid, otherwise non-perturbative methods must be brought to bear.

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    The putative graviton would be the only spin-2 particle.

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Andrews, M. (2023). Theory and Phenomenology. In: Search for Exotic Higgs Boson Decays to Merged Diphotons. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25091-0_3

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