Event characterization of dark bosons via exotic Higgs decays with final states of displaced dimuons in high luminosity era of the LHC
T. Elkafrawy*,
M. Hohlmann,
T. Kamon and
P. Padley*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 16, 2022
Published on:
June 15, 2023
Abstract
We investigate the potential reach of a search for a long-lived/prompt dark vector boson ZD, also called dark Z, and a prompt dark Higgs boson hD through exotic decays of the observed Higgs boson h into either ZDZD, hDhD, or ZZD with Z being the hypercharge gauge boson. The ZD production through the Higgs portal is completed via one of two mechanisms, kinetic mixing of ZD with Z and the mixing of hD with h. All production modes of h are considered, while the branching fractions are calculated in Monte Carlo simulation using the {\textsc{MadGraph5}}\_aMC@NLO v2.7.2 framework. We focus on a final state of multiple dimuons, displaced up to \mbox{7500 mm}, where the muons can be reconstructed without vertex constraint using data from ATLAS and CMS detectors to be collected in Run~3. Integrated luminosities of 137, 300, and 3000 fb−1 for Run~2, Run~3, and high luminosity run (HL-LHC), respectively, are used for estimating the expected search sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider to each of the decay modes.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.414.1023
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