Aug 20 – 25, 2023
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Prospects for exotic light scalar measurements at the e+e- Higgs factory

Aug 23, 2023, 4:30 PM
15m
Hörsaal A (Historic main building)

Hörsaal A

Historic main building

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
Parallel session talk Searches for New Physics T10 Searches for New Physics

Speaker

Aleksander Filip Zarnecki (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

Description

The physics program of the Higgs factory will focus on measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson, with the Higgs-strahlung process being the dominant production channel at 250 GeV. However, production of extra light scalars is still not excluded by the existing experimental data, provided their coupling to the gauge bosons is sufficiently suppressed. Fermion couplings of such a scalar could also be very different from the SM predictions leading to non-standard decay paterns. Considered in the presented study is the sensitivity of future Higgs factory experiments to direct observation of the new light scalar production for the scalar mass range from 50 GeV to 120 GeV.

Collaboration / Activity ECFA study on e+e- HET Factory

Primary author

Aleksander Filip Zarnecki (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

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