Exclusive Weak Radiative Higgs Decays in the Standard Model and Beyond

Abstract

We perform a detailed study of the exclusive Higgs decays $h\to MZ$ and $h\to MW$, where $M$ is a pseudoscalar or vector meson, using the QCD factorization approach. We allow for the presence of new-physics effects in the form of modified Higgs couplings to gauge bosons and fermions, including the possibility of flavor-changing Higgs couplings. We show that the decays $h\to VZ$ exhibit a strong sensitivity to the effective CP-even and CP-odd $h\gamma Z$ couplings. When combined with a measurement of the $h\to \gamma Z$ decay rate, this can be used to extract these couplings up to a sign ambiguity in the CP-odd coefficient. Some of the $h\to MW$ decay modes can be used to probe for flavor-violating Higgs couplings involving the top quark.

17 pages plus appendix, 5 figures, 3 tables. v2: added discussion of EDM constraints, added references, matches version published in JHEP

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