Observability of the Higgs boson decay to a photon and a dark photon
Journal
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
108
Journal Issue
1
Start Page
015018
ISSN
2470-0010
2470-0029
Date Issued
2023-07-17
Author(s)
Hugues Beauchesne
Abstract
Many collider searches have attempted to detect the Higgs boson decaying to a photon and an invisible massless dark photon. For the branching ratio to this channel to be realistically observable at the LHC, there must exist new mediators that interact with both the standard model and the dark photon. In this paper, we study experimental and theoretical constraints on an extensive set of mediator models. We show that these constraints limit the Higgs branching ratio to a photon and a dark photon to be far smaller than the current sensitivity of collider searches.
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Type
journal article