https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01116-5
Regular Article
Sensitivity to invisible scalar decays at CLIC
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Received:
2
May
2020
Accepted:
13
January
2021
Published online:
1
February
2021
We studied the possibility of constraining production of new scalar particles at CLIC running at 380 GeV and 1.5 TeV, assuming the associated production of Higgs-like neutral scalar with 
boson and its invisible decays. The analysis is based on the Whizard event generation and fast simulation of the CLIC detector response with Delphes. We considered 
background processes but also relevant 
and 
interactions. The approach consisting of a two-step analysis was used to optimise separation between signal and background processes. First, a set of preselection cuts was applied; then, multivariate analysis methods were employed to optimise the significance of observations. We first estimated the expected limits on the invisible decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson, which were then extended to the cross section limits for production of an additional neutral scalar, assuming its invisible decays, as a function of its mass. Extracted model-independent branching ratio and cross section limits were then interpreted in the framework of the Higgs-portal models to set limits on the mixing angle between the SM-like Higgs boson and the new scalar of the “dark sector”.
This work was carried out in the framework of the CLICdp Collaboration.
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