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Displaced Higgs production in type III seesaw
Published in Springer Verlag
2010
Volume: 2010
   
Issue: 11
Abstract
We point out that the type III seesaw mechanism introducing fermion triplets predicts peculiar Higgs boson signatures of displaced vertices with two b jets and one or two charged particles which can be cleanly identified. In a supersymmetric theory, the scalar partner of the fermion triplet contains a neutral dark matter candidate which is almost degenerate with its charged components. A Higgs boson can be produced together with such a dark matter triplet in the cascade decay chain of a strongly produced squark or gluino. When the next lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) is bino/wino-like, there appears a Higgs boson associated with two charged tracks of a charged lepton and a heavy charged scalar at a displacement larger than about 1 mm. The corresponding production cross-section is about 0.5 fb for the squark/gluino mass of 1TeV. In the case of the stau NLSP, it decays mainly to a Higgs boson and a heavy charged scalar whose decay length is larger than 0.1 mm for the stau NLSP mixing with the left-handed stau smaller than 0.3. As this process can have a large cascade production ∼ 2 pb for the squark/gluino mass ∼ 1TeV, one may be able to probe it at the early stage of the LHC experiment. © 2010 SISSA.
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JournalData powered by TypesetJournal of High Energy Physics
PublisherData powered by TypesetSpringer Verlag
ISSN11266708