Exotic Higgs decays in the golden channel

Understand

The Higgs boson may have decay channels that are not predicted by the Standard Model.

• We discuss the prospects of probing exotic Higgs decays at the LHC using the 4-lepton final state.
• We study two specific scenarios, with new particles appearing in the intermediate state of the 4-lepton Higgs decay.
• In one, Higgs decays to a Z boson and a new massive gauge boson, the so-called hidden photon.