Role of h-->etaeta in intermediate-mass Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider.
The dominance of the h-->etaeta decay mode for the intermediate-mass Higgs boson is highly motivated to solve the little hierarchy problem and to ease the tension with the precision data. However, the discovery modes for m(h) approximately <150 GeV, h-->gammagamma, and W/Zh-->(lnu/ll)(bb), will be substantially affected. In this Letter, we show that h-->etaeta-->4b is complementary and we can use this decay mode to detect the intermediate Higgs boson at the LHC, via Wh and Zh production. Requiring at least one charged lepton and 4B tags in the final state, we can identify a clean Higgs boson signal for m(h) approximately <150 GeV with a high significance and with a full Higgs mass reconstruction. We use the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model and the simplest little Higgs model for illustration.
Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Kingman
K
Cheung
Jeonghyeon
J
Song
Qi-Shu
QS
Yan