Looking through the Higgs portal with exotic Higgs decays

Jessie SheltonUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Unlocking the Higgs Portal (U. Mass. Amherst)May 1, 2014

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A light SM-like Higgs is narrow

A light SM-like Higgs is narrow

• Presence of new light degrees of freedom can distort Higgs Brs by O(1) even for small couplings

Simple example: one new scalar

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A light SM-like Higgs is narrow

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• Exotic Higgs decay modes easily sensitive to new physics scales significantly above a TeV

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Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC

Higgs production in gluon fusion (8 TeV): 20 pb

Accumulated data at 8 TeV: 20 ifb

If: order one acceptance, good S/B:statistics for branching fractions ~10-4

~400,000 Higgs bosons served

Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC

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Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC

Unofficial combination of ATLAS and CMS (Giardino et al.);

(see also Ellis, You; Belanger et al.)

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...but also, many searches have not yet been done

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Exotic Higgs Decays at the LHC

D. Curtin, R. Essig, S. Gori, P. Jaiswal, A. Katz, T. Liu, Z. Liu, D. McKeen, JS, M. Strassler, Z. Surujon, B. Tweedie, Y-M. Zhong

Immense landscape of possibilities

Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson, arXiv:1312.4992

• Higgs portal couplings:

• Signatures depend on how HS states decay: to further HS states, back to SM

• May be: NMSSM-like, semi-invisible, high multiplicity, displaced, ...

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

• Long-standing body of work on

exotic Higgs decays, much driven by

precision EW preference for a Higgs

below the LEP bound

• Many examples fall out naturally from extended Higgs

sectors: NMSSM, EW baryogenesis, ...

• Others come from DM model building

• Genericity of Higgs portal: what are light degrees of

freedom?

Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

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Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:

consider 2HDM + complex singlet S

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type II Yukawas

Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type III Yukawas

Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:

consider 2HDM + complex singlet S

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

1. Higgs decay to scalars

Singlet pseudoscalar Br: Type IV Yukawas

Extended Higgs sectors alter Yukawas:

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

2. Higgs decay to fermions

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

2. Higgs decay to fermions

Signatures depend on further fermion couplings: parameters largely independent of Higgs couplings

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

3. Higgs decay to vectors

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Theories for Exotic Higgs Decays

3. Higgs decay to vectors

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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

• Each final state requires its own strategy.

• General observations:

• Leptonic resonances especially powerful

• Recast LHC8 analyses already place interesting limits on final states with multiple electroweak objects

• ...but results depend very sensitively on acceptance thresholds

• gluon fusion: powerful but limited

• A range of possibilities from spectacular to very hard

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`

h Resonant 4-lepton signal: spectacular ...just need to look for it!

• NMSSM-motivated 4-muon searches stop at 5 GeV

• Scrape data from Higgs searches, ZZ calibration regions

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`

CMS data, SM background: ZZ*

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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`

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Example 1: .h ! VDVD ! 4`

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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

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Example 1A: .h ! ZVD ! 4`

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h ! ZDZD ! exotic

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 2: . h ! aa ! 4⌧, 2⌧2µ

Exclusions from multilepton searches

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 2: . h ! aa ! 4⌧, 2⌧2µ

Gain from sharp resonance in muons, despite lower BR [Lisanti & Wacker]

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Example 2A: METh ! �2�2 ! 4`+

Best existing limits from inclusive many-bin CMS multi-lepton searches:

Br(h ! �2�2) < 12%

(SUS-12-027, SUS-13-010) (includes Z Br and is highly spectrum-dependent)

•Most multi-lepton analyses specialized for high-pT signals

•Can further target analyses to Higgs kinematics

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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

Best limits: GMSB search (CMS SUS-12-018)

• 4 ifb, not optimized for Higgs signal

Example 2B: METh ! �2�2 ! 2�+

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Estimated 95% CL reach

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

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Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa

Direct searches for exotic Higgs decays

LHC prospects for .h ! ss, aa

• The observed 125 GeV Higgs boson is highly sensitive to the potential existence of new light degrees of freedom

• Many interesting results/prospects at LHC8 already

• Light (pseudo-)scalars: still difficult

• Great statistical power from LHC 14: Higgs factory

• but reduced acceptance for low-pT objects may limit reach

• Important to remember for LHC 14: many physics opportunities at low pT

Summary and Conclusions