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Unitarity-controlled resonances after the Higgs boson discovery

Christoph Englert1,*, Philip Harris2,†, Michael Spannowsky3,‡, and Michihisa Takeuchi4,§

  • 1SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
  • 2CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
  • 3Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
  • 4Kavli IPMU (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan

  • *christoph.englert@glasgow.ac.uk
  • †philip.coleman.harris@cern.ch
  • ‡michael.spannowsky@durham.ac.uk
  • §michihisa.takeuchi@kcl.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. D 92, 013003 – Published 7 July, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.013003

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If the recently discovered Higgs boson’s couplings deviate from the Standard Model expectation, we may anticipate new resonant physics in the weak boson fusion channels resulting from high scale unitarity sum rules of longitudinal gauge boson scattering. Motivated by excesses in analyses of multi-leptons + missing energy + jets final states during run 1, we perform a phenomenological investigation of these channels at the LHC bounded by current Higgs coupling constraints. Such an approach constrains the prospects to observe such new physics at the LHC as a function of very few and generic parameters and allows the investigation of the strong requirement of probability conservation in the electroweak sector to high energies.

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Phys. Rev. D 92, 013003– Published 7 July, 2015
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