{
  "id": "1105.4587",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-05-23T19:26:09.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-05-23T19:26:09.000Z",
  "title": "Singlet scalars as Higgs imposters at the Large Hadron Collider",
  "authors": [
    "Ian Low",
    "Joseph Lykken",
    "Gabe Shaughnessy"
  ],
  "comment": "21 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.84.035027",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "An electroweak singlet scalar can couple to pairs of vector bosons through loop-induced dimension five operators. Compared to a Standard Model Higgs boson, the singlet decay widths in the diphotons and Z gamma channels are generically enhanced, while decays into massive final states like WW and ZZ are kinematically disfavored. The overall event rates into gamma gamma and Z gamma can exceed the Standard Model expectations by orders of magnitude. Such a singlet may appear as a resonant signal in the gamma gamma and Z gamma channels, even with a mass above the WW kinematic threshold.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-05-23T19:26:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "14.80.Ec",
      "14.80.Bn"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "large hadron collider",
      "higgs imposters",
      "gamma channels",
      "gamma gamma",
      "standard model higgs boson"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Aug",
      "volume": 84,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": "035027"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 21,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 900884,
      "adsabs": "2011PhRvD..84c5027L"
    }
  }
}