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arxiv: 1210.3342 · v2 · submitted 2012-10-11 · ✦ hep-ph

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Coupling spans of the Higgs-like boson

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keywords limitupperhiggswidthbosoncouplinghiggs-likelimits
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Using the LHC and Tevatron data, we set upper and lower limits on the total width of the Higgs-like boson. The upper limit is based on the well-motivated assumption that the Higgs coupling to a W or Z pair is not much larger than in the Standard Model. These width limits allow us to convert the rate measurements into ranges for the Higgs couplings to various particles. A corollary of the upper limit on the total width is an upper limit on the branching fraction of exotic Higgs decays. Currently, this limit is 47% at the 95% CL if the electroweak symmetry is broken only by doublets.

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