Speaker
Jose Manuel Cano
(IFT UAM/CSIC)
Description
We study exotic Higgs decays $h \to Z X$, with $X$ an invisible beyond the Standard Model (SM) particle, resulting in a semi-dark final state. Such exotic Higgs decays may occur in theories of axion-like-particles (ALPs), dark photons or pseudoscalar mediators between the SM and dark matter. The SM process $h\to Z\nu\bar{\nu}$ represents an irreducible ``neutrino floor'' background to these new physics searches, providing also a target experimental sensitivity for them. We analyze $h \to Z + \text{invisible}$ searches at the LHC and a future ILC, showing that these exotic Higgs decays can yield sensitivity to unexplored regions of parameter space for ALPs and dark matter models.
| Type of talk | Theory |
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Primary authors
Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra
(University of Granada)
Jose Manuel Cano
(IFT UAM/CSIC)
David Cerdeño
Jose Miguel No
(IFT-UAM/CSIC)
