Squark-mediated Higgs+jets production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores how light-squark production at the LHC could serve as a new mechanism for Higgs boson production with jets, analyzing simplified models in the context of SUSY searches.

Contribution

It introduces two simplified models for light-squark mediated Higgs+jets production and discusses their implications for current and future LHC searches.

Findings

Constraints from Run I data are analyzed.

Implications for Run II and future runs are discussed.

The models provide new interpretations for Higgs+jets events.

Abstract

We investigate possible scenarios of light-squark production at the LHC as a new mechanism to produce Higgs bosons in association with jets. The study is motivated by the SUSY search for H+jets events, performed by the CMS collaboration on 8 and 13 TeV data using the razor variables. Two simplified models are proposed to interpret the observations in this search. The constraint from Run I and the implications for Run II and beyond are discussed.