CPHT-RR025.0413 ICTP-SAIFR/2013-005 LPSC13097 A Bayesian view of the Higgs sector with higher dimensional operators B´eranger Dumonta, Sylvain Fichetb, Gero von Gersdorffc,d∗ aLaboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, UJF Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, INPG, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38026 Grenoble, France bInternational Institute of Physics, UFRN, Av. Odilon Gomes de Lima, 1722 - Capim Macio - 59078-400 - Natal-RN, Brazil cCentre de Physique Th´eorique, ´Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, F-91128 Palaiseau, France dICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil Abstract We investigate the possibilities of New Physics affecting the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector. An effective Lagrangian with dimension-six operators is used to capture the effect of New Physics. We carry out a global Bayesian inference analysis, considering the recent LHC data set including all available correlations, as well as results from Tevatron. Trilinear gauge boson couplings and electroweak precision observables are also taken into account. The case of weak bosons tensorial couplings is closely examined and NLO QCD corrections are taken into account in the deviations we predict. We consider two scenarios, one where the coefficients of all the dimension-six operators are essentially unconstrained, and one where a certain subset is loop suppressed.In both scenarios, we find that large deviations from some of the SM Higgs couplings can still be present, assuming New Physics arising at 3 TeV. In particular, we find that a significantly reduced coupling of the Higgs to the top quark is possible and slightly favored by searches on Higgs production in association with top quark pairs. The total width of the Higgs boson is only weakly constrained and can vary between 0.7 and 2.7 times the Standard Model value within 95% Bayesian credible interval (BCI). We also observe sizeable effects induced by New Physics contributions to tensorial couplings. In particular, the Higgs boson decay width intoZγcan be enhanced by up to a factor 12 within 95% BCI. ∗sylvain.fichet@lpsc.in2p3.fr, dumont@lpsc.in2p3.fr, gersdorff@gmail.com arXiv:1304.3369v2 [hep-ph] 22 Jul 2013
1Introduction The existence of a scalar resonance compatible with the SM Higgs boson has now been firmly established at the LHC by the ATLAS and CMS experiments [1, 2]. Based on the latest results presented at the Rencontres de Moriond 2013, the combined significance of the excess around 125 GeV reaches more than 7σin both experiments. The analyses are based on up to 5 fb−1at 7 TeV and 21 fb−1at 8 TeV, collected in 2011 and 2012. Following this fundamental breakthrough, new questions need to be addressed. Some of them may find an answer during the LHC era, through the analysis of the properties of the new boson. A first question is whether or not this resonance is a Higgs boson,i.e. the manifestation of a field involved in the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) and unitarization ofW Wscattering. Second, if it is indeed a Higgs, one may wonder to what extent it is compatible with the Standard Model Higgs. Indeed, the properties of the Higgs boson could be dramatically modified with the theoretical prejudice that New Physics has to emerge near the electroweak scale.On the other hand, direct searches for new states beyond the SM have so far turned out to be unsuccessful, and indirect constraints from electroweak precision measurements at LEP push the limits on masses of new particles somewhat further above the electroweak scale.If New Physics is indeed present and is somehow separated from the electroweak scale, the couplings of the Higgs boson will be close to those of the SM and will only be modified by the effect of a few higher dimensional operators. In this paper, we will explore an effective field theory (EFT) with only relatively few new parameters. Many aspects of these fundamental questions have already been investigated in several works (seee.g.[3–14] for studies based on the 8 TeV results).For example, the chiral EW Lagrangian with a non-linear realization of theSU(2)L×U(1)Ysymmetry is a quite general framework in order to study the properties of electroweak symmetry breaking. Many scenarios producing possibly large deviations with respect to the SM Higgs properties are successfully captured in such EFT approach. We are going to consider that new states appear at a typical scale Λ substantially larger than the electroweak scale. For physical processes involving an energy scale smaller than Λ, New Physics can be integrated out. As a consequence of this hypothesis, the resulting low-energy effective theory consists in the Standard Model, supplemented by infinite series of local operators with higher dimension, which involves negative powers of Λ, Leff=LSM+∑ i αi ΛniOi.(1.1) The effects of such higher dimensional operators (HDOs) have been investigated in many contexts such as flavor physics, or the study of the properties of the electroweak gauge bosons through LEP precision measurements.The purpose of this paper is to study the electroweak sector again, which now includes new Higgs observables.For our analysis, we only have to consider the leading HDOs.The only operator withni= 1 is the one giving a Majorana mass to the neutrino, and is not relevant for our study. We will thus be exclusively interested in then= 2 terms,i.e.dimension-6 operators. 2
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