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arxiv: hep-ph/0105036 · v1 · submitted 2001-05-04 · ✦ hep-ph

What heavy quanta bounds could be inferred from a Higgs discovery?

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keywords heavyhiggsquantafusiongluonpresenceprobeused
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The Higgs couplings can receive non-decoupling corrections due to heavy quanta, and deviations from the SM can be used to test its presence. The possible Higgs signal recently reported at LEP, with mh=115 GeV, severely constrains the presence of heavy quanta, such as a heavy fourth family. At Tevatron, the Higgs production by gluon fusion, followed by the decay h -> WW*, can also be used to probe the existence of heavy colored particles, including additional families, chiral sextet and octet quarks. Within the MSSM, we also find that gluon fusion is a sensitive probe for the squark spectrum.

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