Published January 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Note on the rare decay of a Higgs boson into photons and a Z boson

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physical Sciences, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307 (United States)

Description

We have calculated the width of the rare decay H→γγZ at one-loop level in the standard model for Higgs boson masses in the range 115 GeV≤mH≤160 GeV . For this range of Higgs boson masses we find that Z boson is predominantly longitudinally polarized, and the photons have the same helicity. A comparison of the decay width Γ(H→γγZ) to those of H→γγ and H→γZ shows that, for the Higgs boson mass of mH∼135 GeV, the ratios of the decay widths are Γ(H→γγZ)/Γ(H→γγ)∼Γ(H→γγZ)/Γ(H→γZ)∼10-5-10-6

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 017304-017304.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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