A note on Higgs decays into $Z$ boson and $J/\Psi (\Upsilon)$

TL;DR

This paper analyzes rare Higgs decays into a Z boson and heavy quarkonium states, showing different dominant processes for charmonium and bottomonium final states within the Standard Model.

Contribution

It provides a detailed calculation of the decay rates for h→ZV involving both tree-level and loop-induced processes, highlighting their relative importance.

Findings

Loop-induced process h→Zγ* contributes significantly to charmonium final states.

Tree-level transition dominates for bottomonium states.

Decay rates for h→ZJ/Ψ and h→ZΥ are comparable to previous estimates.

Abstract

Rare decays $h\to Z V$ with $V$ denoting the narrow $c\bar{c}$ or $b\bar{b}$ resonances, such as $J/\Psi$ or $\Upsilon$ states, have been analyzed. Within the standard model, these channels may proceed through the tree-level transition $h\to ZZ^*$ with the virtual $Z^*\to V$, and also loop-induced process $h\to Z\gamma^*$, followed by $\gamma^*\to V$. Our analysis shows that, for the bottomonium final states, the decay rate of $h\to Z \Upsilon$ from the loop-induced process is small and the former transition gives the dominant contribution; while, for the charmonium final states, $\Gamma(h\to Z J/\Psi)$ and $\Gamma(h\to Z\Psi(2S))$ induced by $h\to Z\gamma^* \to Z V$ could be comparable to the contribution given by the tree-level $h\to ZZ^*\to Z V$ transition.