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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 88, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.076009
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- NSF [PHY-0910467]
- DOE [DE-FG02-13ER41942]
- United States Department of Energy [De-AC02-07CH11359]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0910467] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigate the LHC and Higgs factory prospects for measuring the CP phase in the Higgs-tau-tau coupling. Currently this phase can be anywhere between 0 degrees (CP even) and 90 degrees (CP odd). A new, ideal observable is identified from an analytic calculation for the tau(+/-) -> rho(+/-)nu -> pi(+/-)pi(0)nu channel. It is demonstrated to have promising sensitivity at the LHC and superior sensitivity at the ILC compared to previous proposals. Our observable requires the reconstruction of the internal substructure of decaying taus but does not rely on measuring the impact parameter of tau decays. It is the first proposal for such a measurement at the LHC. For the 14 TeV LHC, we estimate that about 1 ab(-1) data can discriminate CP even versus CP odd at the 5 sigma level. With 3 ab(-1), the CP phase should be measurable to an accuracy of similar to 11 degrees. At an e(+)e(-) Higgs factory, we project that a 250 GeV run with 1 ab(-1) luminosity can measure the phase to similar to 4.4 degrees accuracy.
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