Explaining the Higgs decays at the LHC with an extended electroweak model

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Alexandre [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Ramirez Barreto, E., Dias, A. G., Pires, C. A. de S., Queiroz, Farinaldo S., Rodrigues da Silva, P. S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/35895; http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2288-y

We show that the observed enhancement in the diphoton decays of the recently discovered new boson at the LHC, which we assume to be a Higgs boson, can be naturally explained by a new doublet of charged vector bosons from extended electroweak models with SU(3)(C) circle times SU(3)(L) circle times U(1)(X) symmetry. These models are also rather economical in explaining the measured signal strengths, within the current experimental errors, demanding fewer assumptions and less parameters tuning. Our results show a good agreement between the theoretical expected sensitivity to a 126-125 GeV Higgs boson, and the experimental significance observed in the diphoton channel at the 8 TeV LHC. Effects of an invisible decay channel for the Higgs boson are also taken into account, in order to anticipate a possible confirmation of deficits in the branching ratios into ZZ*, WW*, bottom quarks, and tau leptons.