Differentiating the Higgs boson from the dilaton and the radion at hadron colliders

Vernon Barger, Muneyuki Ishida, Wai-Yee Keung

Published 2011-11-18, updated 2012-03-06Version 2

A number of candidate theories beyond the standard model (SM) predict new scalar bosons below the TeV region. Among these, the radion, which is predicted in the Randall-Sundrum model, and the dilaton, which is predicted in spontaneous scale symmetry breaking, have very similar couplings to those of the SM Higgs boson, and it is very difficult to differentiate these three spin-0 particles in the expected signals of the Higgs boson at the LHC and Tevatron. We demonstrate that the observation of the ratio sigma(gamma gamma)/sigma(WW) gives a simple and decisive way, independently of the values of model parameters: the VEVs of the radion and dilaton fields.