Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 90, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.075004
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [PHY-0969739]
- Sloan Foundation Research fellowship
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
- DoE [DE-FG02-97ER41022, DE-FG02-95ER40896, DE-FG02-96ER40959, DE-SC00391, DE-FG-02-91ER40676, DE-FG-0295ER40896, DESC0008061]
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- NSF [PHY-0969510, PHY-1067976, PHY-0904069]
- Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship from Dietrich School of Art and Science, University of Pittsburgh
- PITT PACC
- NSERC, Canada
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-96ER40956]
- LHC Theory Initiative [NSF-PHY-0969510]
- Aspen Center for Physics [NSF 1066293]
- National Science Foundation [PHY05-25915]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1358729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We perform an extensive survey of nonstandard Higgs decays that are consistent with the 125 GeV Higgs-like resonance. Our aim is to motivate a large set of new experimental analyses on the existing and forthcoming data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The explicit search for exotic Higgs decays presents a largely untapped discovery opportunity for the LHC collaborations, as such decays may be easily missed by other searches. We emphasize that the Higgs is uniquely sensitive to the potential existence of new weakly coupled particles and provide a unified discussion of a large class of both simplified and complete models that give rise to characteristic patterns of exotic Higgs decays. We assess the status of exotic Higgs decays after LHC run I. In many cases we are able to set new nontrivial constraints by reinterpreting existing experimental analyses. We point out that improvements are possible with dedicated analyses and perform some preliminary collider studies. We prioritize the analyses according to their theoretical motivation and their experimental feasibility. This document is accompanied by a Web site that will be continuously updated with further information [http://exotichiggs.physics.sunysb.edu].
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