Higgs boson decay into Z bosons and a photon
Author(s) -
A. Abbasabadi,
Wayne W. Repko
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/048
Subject(s) - physics , boson , particle physics , helicity , higgs boson , photon , vector boson , nuclear physics , gamma ray , quantum mechanics
We have performed a one-loop calculation of the width of the rare decay H ->Z Z \gamma in the standard model for Higgs boson masses 190 GeV \leq m_H \leq250 GeV. We find that the most dominant helicity combinations for the Z bosonsand the photon is when one of the Z bosons is longitudinally polarized and theother Z boson and the photon have the same helicity. A comparison of the decaywidth \Gamma(H->Z Z \gamma) to those of H->\gamma \gamma and H->\gamma Z showsthat the ratios of the decay widths are \Gamma(H->Z Z \gamma) /\Gamma(H->\gamma\gamma) ~ \Gamma(H->Z Z \gamma) / \Gamma(H->\gamma Z) ~10^{-7}.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX, figures correcte
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