Abstract
The rare decay modes Higgs boson → four light fermions and Higgs boson → single top quark + three light fermions for are presented, and phenomenologically interpreted. The angular correlation between fermion planes is presented as a test of the spin and intrinsic parity of the Higgs particle. In Higgs-boson decay to a single top quark, two tree-level graphs contribute in the standard model (SM); one couples the Higgs boson to , and one to . The large Yukawa coupling for GeV makes the second amplitude competitive or dominant for most , values. Thus the Higgs-boson decay rate to a single top quark directly probes the SM universal mechanism generating both gauge-boson and fermion masses, and offers a means to infer the Higgs-boson- Yukawa coupling when is kinematically disallowed. We find that the modes at the Superconducting Super Collider, and or at future high-energy, high-luminosity colliders, may be measurable if is not too far above . We classify nonstandard Higgs-bosons as gaugeophobic, fermiophobic, or fermiophilic, and discuss the Higgs boson → single top-quark rates for these classes.
- Received 4 November 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.3886
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