Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2020)

The Higgs and leptophobic force at the LHC

  • Pavel Fileviez Pérez,
  • Elliot Golias,
  • Clara Murgui,
  • Alexis D. Plascencia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 7
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Abstract The Higgs boson could provide the key to discover new physics at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate novel decays of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson into leptophobic gauge bosons which can be light in agreement with all experimental constraints. We study the associated production of the SM Higgs and the leptophobic gauge boson that could be crucial to test the existence of a leptophobic force. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to have a simple gauge extension of the SM at the low scale, without assuming very small couplings and in agreement with all the experimental bounds that can be probed at the LHC.

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