Pair production of long-lived scalars via off-shell Higgs at the LHC is probed with displaced-vertex searches, excluding masses up to ~230 GeV with current ATLAS data for a benchmark coupling.
Long Live the Higgs Factory: Higgs Decays to Long-Lived Particles at Future Lepton Colliders
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We initiate the study of exotic Higgs decays to long-lived particles (LLPs) at proposed future lepton colliders, focusing on scenarios with displaced hadronic final states. Our analysis entails a realistic tracker-based search strategy involving the reconstruction of displaced secondary vertices and the imposition of selection cuts appropriate for eliminating the largest irreducible backgrounds. The projected sensitivity is broadly competitive with that of the LHC and potentially superior at lower LLP masses. In addition to forecasting branching ratio limits, which may be freely interpreted in a variety of model frameworks, we interpret our results in the parameter space of a Higgs portal Hidden Valley and various incarnations of neutral naturalness, illustrating the complementarity between direct searches for LLPs and precision Higgs coupling measurements at future lepton colliders.
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The FCC feasibility study describes how a staged electron-positron and hadron collider could deliver precision measurements on the Higgs, electroweak bosons, and top quark while searching for physics beyond the Standard Model.
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Probing pair production of long-lived scalars via an off-shell Standard-Model-like Higgs boson at the LHC
Pair production of long-lived scalars via off-shell Higgs at the LHC is probed with displaced-vertex searches, excluding masses up to ~230 GeV with current ATLAS data for a benchmark coupling.
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Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 1, Physics, Experiments, Detectors
The FCC feasibility study describes how a staged electron-positron and hadron collider could deliver precision measurements on the Higgs, electroweak bosons, and top quark while searching for physics beyond the Standard Model.
- Search for the production of dark Higgs in the framework of Mono-Z$^{\prime}$ portal at the FCC-ee simulated electron-positron collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 240$ GeV