Possible Anomalies in Higgs Decay: Charm Suppression and Flavour-Violation

Abstract

It is suggested that the Higgs boson may have a branching ratio into the $c\bar{c}$ mode suppressed by several orders of magnitude compared with conventional predictions and in addition some small but detectable flavour-violating modes such as $b\bar{s}$ and $\tau \bar{\mu }$. The suggestion is based on a scheme proposed and tested earlier for explaining the mixing pattern and mass hierarchy of fermions in terms of a rotating mass matrix. If confirmed, the effects would cast new light on the geometric origin of fermion generations and of the Higgs field itself.

12 pages, 3 figures

References in corpus (3)

• New Angle on the Strong CP and Chiral Symmetry Problems from a Rotating Mass Matrix
• Circumstantial Evidence for Rotating Mass Matrix from Fermion Mass and Mixing Data
• A Model Behind the Standard Model

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Accommodating three low-scale anomalies (g-2, Lamb shift, and Atomki) in the framed standard model
• A First Test of the Framed Standard Model against Experiment
• Mass Hierarchy, Mixing, CP-Violation and Higgs Decay---or Why Rotation is Good for Us
• A Closer Study of the Framed Standard Model Yielding Testable New Physics plus a Hidden Sector with Dark Matter Candidates
• The Rotating Mass Matrix, the Strong CP Problem and Higgs Decay
• Resolving an ambiguity of Higgs couplings in the FSM, greatly improving thereby the model's predictive range and prospects