Search for New Non-standard Decay Modes of SM-like Higgs at the LHC

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11120049,
            doi = {10.48660/11120049},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11120049},
            author = {Huang, Jinrui},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Search for New Non-standard Decay Modes of SM-like Higgs at the LHC},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2011},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:11120049 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

We present strategies of searching for supersymmetric non-standard decays of Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs bosons (h2) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), motivated by ''Dark Light Higgs'' (DLH) scenario. The DLH sccenario represents a limit of the nearly-Peccei-Quinn-symmetric Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, where there naturally co-exist two light singlet-like particles: a scalar (h1), a pseudoscalar (a1), and a light singlino-like DM candidate (\chi_1), all with masses of order 10 GeV or below. In this scenario, the SM-like Higgs boson typically decays dominantly into a pair of neutralinos, allowing themselves to be as light as below 100 GeV. We systematically study the searches of both the SM-like and the light Higgs bosons at the LHC, using the supersymmetric non-standard decay chains: h2 -> \chi_1 \chi_2, \chi_2 -> \chi_1 (h1, a1) with the h1 or a1 further decayed into a pair of fermions (including diMuon, diTau and b bbar, etc).