Published December 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Aspects of CP violation in the HZZ coupling at the LHC

  • 1. Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012 (India)
  • 2. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

We examine the CP-conserving (CPC) and CP-violating (CPV) effects of a general HZZ coupling through a study of the process H → ZZ(*) → l+l-l'+l'- at the LHC. We construct asymmetries that directly probe these couplings. Further, we present complete analytical formulae for the angular distributions of the decay leptons and for some of the asymmetries. Using these we have been able to identify new observables which can provide enhanced sensitivity to the CPV HZZ coupling. We also explore probing CP violation through shapes of distributions in different kinematic variables, which can be used for Higgs bosons with mH < 2 mZ

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2007
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 031
ISSN
1126-6708