1303.1181 (Prerit Jaiswal et al.)

Higgs Production Amidst the LHC Detector    [PDF]

Prerit Jaiswal, Karoline Kopp, Takemichi Okui

We investigate the spectacular collider signatures of macroscopically long-lived, neutral particles that decay to Higgs bosons and missing energy. We show that such long-lived particles arise naturally in a very minimal extension of the Standard Model with only two new fermions with electroweak interactions. The lifetime of the long-lived neutral particles can range from 10^{-2} mm to 10^6 mm. In some regions of the parameter space, the exotic signals would have already been selected by the ATLAS and CMS triggers in their 7 and 8 TeV runs, hence hiding in the existing data. We also discuss the possibility of explaining the mild anomalies observed in the diphoton Higgs channel and the WW production at the LHC.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1181