Collider Implications of a Non-Universal Higgs
arXiv:hep-ph/0612229 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.095001
Abstract
We consider in detail the possibility that the Higgs is wholly or partially excluded from propagating into one otherwise universal extra dimension. This exclusion of the Higgs from propagating into an otherwise universal extra dimension violates tree-level Kaluza-Klein number conservation in the Yukawa interactions. As a consequence, there is inter-mode mixing between fermions. For example, zero-mode fermions mix with their associated Kaluza-Klein excitations. This is in contrast to the original universal extra dimensions scenario, in which conservation of Kaluza-Klein number prohibits such inter-mode mixing. Inter-mode mixing is especially significant for the top quark, since its mass (171.4 +/- 2.1 GeV) is approximately one-half the current Tevatron mass bound (~350-400 GeV) for Kaluza-Klein excitations of quarks propagating into universal extra dimensions. We compute the effects that mixing among the zero-modes and lowest-lying Kaluza-Klein excitations has on the lightest third-generation charge 2/3 quark mass eigenvalue in the non-universal Higgs model with one otherwise universal extra dimension. Another consequence of the inter-mode mixing is that the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the fermions can decay to a zero-mode Higgs and a corresponding zero-mode fermion. As a result, the pair production of Kaluza-Klein excitations of the top quark would lead to two zero-mode Higgs bosons plus a zero-mode top quark/anti-quark pair. We compute the cross section that the non-universal Higgs model contributes to Higgs production at the Large Hadron Collider. The effect is quite large: For example, the Kaluza-Klein contribution to Higgs production is comparable to or larger than the Standard Model contribution, depending on the Higgs mass, for compactification scales up to about 600 GeV.
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