Searches for rare Higgs boson decays at CMS
R. Ardino*
on behalf of the CMS Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 17, 2024
Published on:
April 29, 2025
Abstract
The couplings of the Higgs boson to fermions have been studied with third and second generation quarks and leptons, while no direct measurements of its interactions with the lighter \( u \), \( d \), \( s \) quarks have been performed to date. The search for rare decays such as \( \text{H} \to \gamma + \phi/\rho/\text{K}^{*0}/\psi\text{(nS)} \) can probe these couplings. While the contribution to the rate of these decays from the diagrams involving Yukawa couplings is negligible in the Standard Model (SM), in theories beyond the SM this contribution could be significantly enhanced. Deviations from the SM branching fractions could be observed because of the interference with the dominant diagrams, where the Higgs boson decays to a diphoton state with one off-shell photon. Results from data collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV will be presented.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0051
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