Abstract
Current Higgs boson searches in various channels at the LHC point to an excess at around 124–126 GeV due to a possibly standard-model-like Higgs boson. If one examines more closely the channels (, , and ) that have excess, this “Higgs boson” may be the Randall-Sundrum radion . Because of the trace anomaly, the radion has stronger couplings to the photon and gluon pairs. Thus, it will enhance the production rates into and , while those for , , and are reduced relative to their standard model values. We show that it can match well with the data from CMS for , and the required scale is about 0.68 TeV.
- Received 28 December 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.141602
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