{"doi":"10.1103/physrevd.111.055028","title":"Flavoring the production of Higgs boson pairs","abstract":"<jats:p>We present a study on the possibility of observing a hypothetical particle known as the flavon <a:math xmlns:a=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><a:msub><a:mi>H</a:mi><a:mi>F</a:mi></a:msub></a:math>, which is predicted in an extension of the standard model that includes the so-called Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. The proposed decay channel is through a <c:math xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><c:mrow><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mover accent=\"true\"><c:mrow><c:mi>b</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mo stretchy=\"false\">¯</c:mo></c:mrow></c:mover><c:mi>h</c:mi></c:mrow></c:math> final state, where the Higgs boson (<g:math xmlns:g=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><g:mi>h</g:mi></g:math>) decays to a pair of photons or a pair of <i:math xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><i:mi>b</i:mi></i:math> quarks <k:math xmlns:k=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><k:mrow><k:mo stretchy=\"false\">(</k:mo><k:mi>h</k:mi><k:mo stretchy=\"false\">→</k:mo><k:mi>γ</k:mi><k:mi>γ</k:mi><k:mo>,</k:mo><k:mi>b</k:mi><k:mover accent=\"true\"><k:mrow><k:mi>b</k:mi></k:mrow><k:mrow><k:mo stretchy=\"false\">¯</k:mo></k:mrow></k:mover><k:mo stretchy=\"false\">)</k:mo></k:mrow></k:math>. We found that, under special scenarios of the model parameter space, the processes analyzed could provide evidence for the existence of the flavon in the next stage of the LHC: the High Luminosity LHC. Specifically, we predict a  of <r:math xmlns:r=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><r:mn>5</r:mn><r:mi>σ</r:mi></r:math> (<t:math xmlns:t=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><t:mn>2</t:mn><t:mi>σ</t:mi></t:math>) in the <v:math xmlns:v=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><v:mi>h</v:mi><v:mo stretchy=\"false\">→</v:mo><v:mi>b</v:mi><v:mover accent=\"true\"><v:mi>b</v:mi><v:mo stretchy=\"false\">¯</v:mo></v:mover></v:math> (<ab:math xmlns:ab=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><ab:mi>h</ab:mi><ab:mo stretchy=\"false\">→</ab:mo><ab:mi>γ</ab:mi><ab:mi>γ</ab:mi></ab:math>) channel for a flavon mass of 800 (900) GeV and an integrated luminosity of 2500 <db:math xmlns:db=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><db:mrow><db:mo stretchy=\"false\">(</db:mo><db:mn>3000</db:mn><db:mo stretchy=\"false\">)</db:mo><db:mtext> </db:mtext><db:mtext> </db:mtext><db:msup><db:mrow><db:mi>fb</db:mi></db:mrow><db:mrow><db:mo>−</db:mo><db:mn>1</db:mn></db:mrow></db:msup></db:mrow></db:math>.</jats:p>","journal":"Physical Review D","year":2025,"id":6192,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.0469,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-03-26","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":58048,"name":"J. Lorenzo Díaz-Cruz","orcid":"0000-0002-5984-8802","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":58049,"name":"E. A. Herrera-Chacón","orcid":"0000-0001-8316-3988","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":58050,"name":"T. A. Valencia-Pérez","orcid":"0000-0002-6410-6467","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":58051,"name":"Jhovanny Mejia Guisao","orcid":"0000-0002-1153-816X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":58047,"name":"M. A. Arroyo-Ureña","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":38,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-03-01T18:20:47.508186Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}