Enhanced diHiggs signal from hidden scalar QCD at leading-order scale-symmetry limit

TL;DR

This paper proposes an effective model from scale-invariant hidden scalar-QCD with scale anomaly effects, predicting a light composite dilaton and significantly enhanced diHiggs production, offering testable deviations from the Standard Model at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a novel effective model including scale anomaly effects in hidden scalar-QCD, predicting a light dilaton and large diHiggs cross section enhancements.

Findings

Predicts a 280 GeV dilaton consistent with lattice results.

DiHiggs production cross section can be up to 10 times larger than SM.

Suggests potential explanations for dark matter and electroweak phase transition.

Abstract

We develop an effective-model description arising from a recently proposed scale-invariant hidden scalar-QCD, which has been used to explain the dynamical origin of the electroweak scale. In addition to the previous works, our new effective model includes the dynamical scale-anomaly effect from the hidden QCD gluons, to explicitly break the classical-scale invariance at the level of an effective field theory, which is known as the leading-order scale-symmetry (LOSS). In the phenomenological analysis, the proposed model predicts a light composite dilaton composed of hidden scalar quarks and gluons with the mass around electroweak scale (around 280 GeV), and has only one input parameter, which is the mixing angle between the Higgs boson and the composite dilaton. Our result for the dilaton mass is in accord with the lattice simulation for scalar QCD, where the scalar-quark bound states acquire a large effective mass from the hidden gluon contribution. Furthermore, we predict several significant deviations from the SM, like the diHiggs production cross sections (maximally about 10 times larger than the SM prediction), that could be directly tested at the high luminosity LHC. It is also the first study for the diHiggs production signal predicted from a scale(conformal)-invariant hidden sector, even from dark/hidden QCD. Our proposed effective model is thus significantly different than the conventional realization of scale-invariant hidden-scalar QCD without the scale anomaly effect, and can potentially provide a competitive explanation for many exotic phenomena beyond the standard model, such as new dark matter candidates and a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition.