Higgs decay into photons through a spin-2 loop

TL;DR

This paper investigates how a hypothetical charged spin-2 particle could influence the Higgs boson's decay into photons, potentially explaining observed deviations from Standard Model predictions.

Contribution

It introduces a calculation of the impact of a charged spin-2 resonance on the Higgs diphoton decay, exploring new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Spin-2 resonance can enhance Higgs to diphoton decay rate

Potential explanation for the observed excess in diphoton decay

Provides a framework for testing new strongly-coupled sectors

Abstract

A new particle with proprieties similar to those of the Higgs boson in the Standard Model (SM) has been recently discovered. The biggest discrepancy is related to its diphoton decay, whose branching ratio seems to be around two times larger with respect to the correspondent SM value; this evidence, even if still affected by large uncertainties, suggests that clues of new physics related to the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry could be hidden under this loop-induced process. A new strongly-coupled sector responsible for this breaking, for instance, could produce in analogy with QCD a charged massive spin-2 state. In light of these arguments we calculate and discuss the role of such a resonance in the diphoton decay width of the Higgs.