Abstract
We study a simplified model of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson decaying to a degenerate pair of scalars which travel a macroscopic distance before decaying to SM particles. This is the leading signal for many well-motivated solutions to the hierarchy problem that do not propose additional light colored particles. Bounds for displaced Higgs boson decays below 10 cm are found by recasting existing tracker searches from Run I. New tracker search strategies, sensitive to the characteristics of these models and similar decays, are proposed with sensitivities projected for Run II at s=13TeV. With 20fb-1 of data, we find that Higgs branching ratios down to 2×10-4 can be probed for centimeter decay lengths.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 073008 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 12 Oct 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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