Di-photon decay of a light Higgs state in the BLSSM

Ahmed Ali Abdelalim; Biswaranjan Das; Shaaban Khalil; Stefano Moretti

Nuclear Physics B (Dec 2022)

Di-photon decay of a light Higgs state in the BLSSM

Ahmed Ali Abdelalim,
Biswaranjan Das,
Shaaban Khalil,
Stefano Moretti

Affiliations

Ahmed Ali Abdelalim: Center for Fundamental Physics, Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6 October City, Giza 12588, Egypt; Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt; Corresponding author.
Biswaranjan Das: Center for Fundamental Physics, Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6 October City, Giza 12588, Egypt; East African Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-EAIFR), University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
Shaaban Khalil: Center for Fundamental Physics, Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6 October City, Giza 12588, Egypt
Stefano Moretti: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 985
p. 116013

Abstract

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In the context of the B−L Supersymmetric Standard Model (BLSSM), we investigate the consistency of a scenario with a light Higgs boson with mass in the range 94−98 GeV and a Standard Model (SM) Higgs state at 125 GeV with the results of a search performed by the CMS Collaboration in the di-photon channel primarily involving data at an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 and an energy of s = 13 TeV. In this study, we present a Monte Carlo (MC) analysis of signal and background mimicking the experimental one and showing acceptable consistency with data, at both the integral and differential level.

Published in Nuclear Physics B

ISSN: 0550-3213 (Print); 1873-1562 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics: Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
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