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Early discovery of top partners and test of the Higgs nature

Natascia Vignaroli
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Top partners from a new strong sector can be discovered soon, at the 8 TeV LHC, by analyzing their single production, which exhibits a large enhancement in the cross section compared to the analogous productions of bottom partners and exotic quarks. We analyze the subsequent decay of the top partners into a 125 GeV Higgs. This channel proves to be very promising for both the discovery of top partners and a test of the Higgs sector. For a reference value $λ_{\tilde{T}}=3$ of the Higgs coupling to the top partner, we could have a discovery (observation) at the 8 TeV LHC, with 30 fb$^{-1}$, for top partner masses up to 760 (890) GeV. If the LHC and Tevatron excesses near 125 GeV are really due to a composite Higgs, naturalness arguments demand top partners below $\sim 1$ TeV. Our results highlight thus that the 8 TeV LHC already has a large sensitivity on probing the composite Higgs hypothesis. The LHC reach is even wider at $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. With $λ_{\tilde{T}}=3$ the LHC with 100 fb$^{-1}$ can observe (at 5$σ$) a Higgs from a top partner decay for masses of this latter up to $\simeq 1450$ GeV. In the case the top partner was as light as $\simeq 500$ GeV, the 14 TeV LHC would be sensitive to the measure of the $λ_{\tilde{T}}$ coupling in basically the full range $λ_{\tilde{T}}>1$ predicted by the theory.

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Natascia Vignaroli. 2012-09-20. Early discovery of top partners and test of the Higgs nature. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.075017

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