Identical particle and lepton mass effects in the decay $H\to Z^{\ast }(\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-})+Z^{\ast }(\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-})$

Abstract

We consider identical particle and lepton mass effects in the cascade decay $H\to Z^{\ast }(\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-})+Z^{\ast }(\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-})$. Since the scale of the problem is set by the off-shellness $p_a^2$ and $p_b^2$ of the respective gauge bosons in the limits ($4m_{\tau }^2\le p_a^2,p_b^2\le (m_H-2m_{\tau }{)}^2$) and not by $m_H^2$, lepton mass effects are nonnegligible in particular close to the threshold of the off-shell decays. We calculate the rates and single angle decay distributions and compare them with the corresponding rates and single angle decay distributions for the nonidentical particle decays $H\to Z^{\ast }(\to e^{+}{e}^{-})+Z^{\ast }(\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})$ involving negligible lepton masses.

arXiv comment39 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables

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