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Possible Anomalies in Higgs Decay: Charm Suppression and Flavour-Violation
José BordesSheung Tsun TsouHong-mo Chansubject
PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Bar (music)Branching fractionHigh Energy Physics::LatticeHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesFermionMass matrixHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHiggs fieldHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Orders of magnitude (time)Higgs bosonHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentCharm (quantum number)Engineering (miscellaneous)description
It is suggested that the Higgs boson may have a branching ratio into the c (c) over bar c mode suppressed by several orders of magnitude compared with conventional predictions and in addition some small but detectable flavour-violating modes such as b (s) over bar and tau(mu) over bar. The suggestion is based on a scheme proposed and tested earlier for explaining the mixing pattern and mass hierarchy of fermions in terms of a rotating mass matrix. If confirmed, the effects would cast new light on the geometric origin of fermion generations and of the Higgs field itself.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-12 |