Implications from 125 GeV Higgs and Z-pole measurements

  • Event Date: 2019-03-28
  • Particle/String/Cosmology
  • Speaker: Dr. Po-Yan Tseng (Kavli IPMU)  /  Host: Prof. Chong-Sun Chu (NTHU)
    Place: R521, 5F, 2nd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

There is a $+2\sigma$ deviation in the average Higgs-signal strength for all the $7+8+13$ TeV data up to Summer 2018. We find that a slight reduction of the bottom-Yukawa coupling can fit the data better than the standard model. We suggest an extension with a vector-like quark doublet, of which the right-handed component of $b'$ mixes nonnegligibly with the standard model $b$ quark. We show that the mixing would induce a reduction of the bottom Yukawa coupling. Simultaneously, the coupling of the $Z$ boson to the right-handed $b$ quark increases, which could reduce the forward-backward asymmetry of bottom production at LEP and bring it closer to the experimental value.