5–7 May 2014
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Anatomizing Exotic Production of the Higgs Boson

6 May 2014, 17:15
15m
Benedum Hall G30 (University of Pittsburgh)

Benedum Hall G30

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Felix Yu (Fermilab)

Description

We discuss exotic production modes of the Higgs boson and how their phenomenology can be probed in current Higgs analyses. We highlight the importance of differential distributions in disentangling standard production mechanisms from exotic modes. We present two model benchmarks for exotic Higgs production arising from chargino-neutralino production and study their impact on the current Higgs dataset. As a corollary, we emphasize that current Higgs coupling fits do not fully explore the space of new physics deviations possible in Higgs data.

Primary author

Felix Yu (Fermilab)

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