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arXiv · 1503.08307

New Physics Searches with Higgs-photon associated production at the Higgs Factory

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The Higgs factory is designed for precise measurement of Higgs characters and search for new physics. In this paper we propose that $e^+e^- \to γh$ process could be a useful channel for new physics, which is normally expressed model independently by effective field theory. We calculate the cross section in both the Standard Model and effective field theory approach, and find that the new physics effects of $γh$ have only two degrees of freedom, much fewer than the Higgsstrahlung process. This point could be used to reduce the degeneracies of Wilson coefficients. We also calculated for the first time the 2$σ$ bounds of $γh$ at the Higgs factory, and prove that $γh$ is more sensitive to some dimension-6 operators than the current experimental data. In the optimistic scenario new physics effects may be observed at the CEPC or FCC-ee after the first couple of years of their run.

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Hong-Yu Ren. 2015-03-28. New Physics Searches with Higgs-photon associated production at the Higgs Factory. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137%2F39%2F11%2F113101

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