TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of a composite Higgs boson
AU - Low, Ian
AU - Vichi, Alessandro
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/8/18
Y1 - 2011/8/18
N2 - We present a model-independent prescription for computing the gluon fusion production rate of a composite Higgs boson, which arises as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, using effective Lagrangians. The calculation incorporates three different effects due to the composite nature of the Higgs, some of which were neglected previously. We apply the prescription to models with and without the collective breaking mechanism. In sharp contrast with the case of a fundamental Higgs scalar, the rate only depends on the decay constant f and is not sensitive to masses of new particles. After including electroweak constraints, there is a substantial reduction in the rate, in the range of 10%-30% or greater.
AB - We present a model-independent prescription for computing the gluon fusion production rate of a composite Higgs boson, which arises as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, using effective Lagrangians. The calculation incorporates three different effects due to the composite nature of the Higgs, some of which were neglected previously. We apply the prescription to models with and without the collective breaking mechanism. In sharp contrast with the case of a fundamental Higgs scalar, the rate only depends on the decay constant f and is not sensitive to masses of new particles. After including electroweak constraints, there is a substantial reduction in the rate, in the range of 10%-30% or greater.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.045019
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.045019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80052857459
VL - 84
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 4
M1 - 045019
ER -