https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612900014
Very rare, exclusive, hadronic decays in QCD factorization
Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, JGU Mainz
* e-mail: m.koenig@uni-mainz.de
Published online: 25 November 2016
We study exclusive hadronic decays of the electroweak bosons Z, W and h in the framework of QCD factorization. We show that the theory uncertainties in these channels are remarkably small compared to past applications of the QCD factorization framework. While the branching ratios are small, many of the modes are accessible at future colliders. The Higgs decays exhibit interesting dependences on the couplings due to the interferences of different diagram topologies, making the h → Vγ decays possible probes of the quark Yukawa couplings and the h → VZ decays probes of the coupling between the Higgs boson, a photon and a Z-boson.
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