Journal of High Energy Physics (Dec 2024)

Scalar radiation zeros at the LHC

  • Christoph Englert,
  • Andrei Lazanu,
  • Peter Millington

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)176
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 12
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Abstract We consider a class of singlet scalar extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics in which the scalar couples only to off-shell states. As a result, low-order tree-level processes involving the singlet scalar vanish, providing a unique phenomenology that may allow to evade existing constraints on new singlet scalar fields. We describe search strategies for such states at the Large Hadron Collider and identify the parameter space that can be explored in the future.

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