Evasive Higgs Maneuvers at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper classifies and discusses strategies for detecting non-standard, evasive Higgs boson decays at the LHC, emphasizing the need for improved search techniques to uncover these elusive signatures.

Contribution

It introduces a classification of evasive Higgs phenomenology and proposes effective field theory descriptions to enhance detection strategies at the LHC.

Findings

Identification of three categories of evasive Higgs signatures

Discussion on effective field theory frameworks for these signatures

Recommendations for improving Higgs search strategies

Abstract

Non-standard decays of the Higgs boson produced at the Large Hadron Collider can lead to signatures which can easily be missed due to non-adapted trigger or search strategies. Keeping electroweak symmetry breaking Standard Model-like we classify the phenomenology of an evasive Higgs boson into three categories and discuss how they can be described in an effective field theory. We comment on how one can improve the search strategies to also detect such an evasive Higgs.