LHC Higgs Signatures from Topflavor Seesaw Mechanism

TL;DR

This paper explores how a topflavor seesaw model with an extended gauge symmetry predicts unique Higgs signatures at the LHC, including modified decay rates and potential discovery of a heavier Higgs boson.

Contribution

It introduces a minimal gauge extension that singles out the top quark sector, predicting new particles and Higgs signatures, and performs a comprehensive fit to current data.

Findings

Modified Higgs signal rates in key decay channels.

Constraints from existing LHC and Tevatron data.

Potential for discovering a heavier Higgs state H.

Abstract

We study LHC Higgs signatures from topflavor seesaw realization of electroweak symmetry breaking with a minimal gauge extension SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1). This elegant renormalizable construction singles out top quark sector (instead of all other light fermions) to join the new SU(2) gauge force. It predicts extra vector-like spectator quarks (T, B), new gauge bosons (W', Z'), and a pair of neutral Higgs bosons (h, H). We demonstrate that for the lighter Higgs boson h of mass 125GeV, this model predicts modified Higgs signal rates in h --> \gamma\gamma, WW*, ZZ* channels via gluon fusions, in h --> tau tau mode via vector boson fusions, and in h --> bb mode via gauge boson associate productions. We perform a global fit for our theory by including both direct search data (LHC and Tevatron) and indirect precision constraints. We further analyze the LHC discovery potential for detecting the heavier Higgs state H.