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Three-body decays of Higgs bosons at LEP2 and application to a hidden fermiophobic Higgs
A. G. Akeroydsubject
PhysicsCondensed Matter::Quantum GasesNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsGauge bosonHigh Energy Physics::LatticeScalar (mathematics)High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesContext (language use)Parameter spaceHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Higgs bosonHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentBosondescription
We study the decays of Higgs bosons to a lighter Higgs boson and a virtual gauge boson in the context of the non-supersymmetric Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM). We consider the phenomenological impact at LEP2 and find that such decays, when open, may be dominant in regions of parameter space and thus affect current Higgs boson search techniques. Three-body decays would be a way of producing light neutral Higgs bosons which have so far escaped detection at LEP due to suppressed couplings to the $Z$, and are of particular importance in the 2HDM (Model I) which allows both a light fermiophobic Higgs and a light charged scalar.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-06-10 |