TY - JOUR
T1 - Is the Decay of the Higgs Boson to a Photon and a Dark Photon Currently Observable at the LHC
AU - Beauchesne, Hugues
AU - Chiang, Cheng Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
PY - 2023/4/7
Y1 - 2023/4/7
N2 - Many attempts have been made to observe the decay of the Higgs boson to a photon and an invisible massless dark photon. For this decay to be potentially observable at the LHC, new mediators that communicate between the standard model and the dark photon must exist. In this Letter, we study bounds on such mediators coming from the Higgs signal strengths, oblique parameters, electric dipole moment of the electron, and unitarity. We find that the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to a photon and a dark photon is constrained to be far smaller than the sensitivity of current collider searches, thus calling for a reconsideration of current experimental efforts.
AB - Many attempts have been made to observe the decay of the Higgs boson to a photon and an invisible massless dark photon. For this decay to be potentially observable at the LHC, new mediators that communicate between the standard model and the dark photon must exist. In this Letter, we study bounds on such mediators coming from the Higgs signal strengths, oblique parameters, electric dipole moment of the electron, and unitarity. We find that the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to a photon and a dark photon is constrained to be far smaller than the sensitivity of current collider searches, thus calling for a reconsideration of current experimental efforts.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.141801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.141801
M3 - Article
C2 - 37084439
AN - SCOPUS:85152148038
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 130
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 14
M1 - 141801
ER -