An extra Z' gauge boson as a source of Higgs particles

TL;DR

This paper explores how a hypothetical Z' gauge boson from an extended gauge model can serve as a novel source of Higgs bosons through unique decay channels, offering new avenues for Higgs detection at future colliders.

Contribution

It introduces a new mechanism for Higgs production via Z' decays, analyzing decay modes and collider signatures in models with extra U(1)' gauge symmetry.

Findings

Branching ratios up to 10^{-2} for Z' decays into Higgs and top or WW pairs.

Potential to study these decay modes at future collider experiments.

Analysis of Higgs production associated with Z bosons at linear colliders.

Abstract

Models with extra gauge bosons often require an extended Higgs sector, which contains a rich spectrum of Higgs bosons with properties that deviate from the Standard Model (SM). Such Higgs bosons could be searched using standard mechanisms similar to the SM. However, the existence of the new gauge bosons could provide new production mechanisms, which could probe the non-standard origin of the Higgs particle. In this paper we study how the Z' from a model with extra U(1)' could be used as a source of Higgs bosons. We study 3-bodies decays of the Z' into a Higgs boson and a top anti-top pair or WW pair, namely Z'\to t\bar{t} h, WW h. We find that it is possible to get {\Br'}s as high as 10^{-2} for these modes, which could be studied at future colliders. We also study the production of the Higgs bosons in association with the Z vector boson at a linear collider, through the reaction e^+ e^- \to Z, Z'\to Z+h, including both the resonant and the non-resonant effects.