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We study axion-like particle contributions to the Higgs boson decays. The particle is assumed to couple with the standard model electroweak gauge bosons. Although direct productions of axion-like particles have often been discussed, we investigate indirect contributions to the Higgs boson decays into fermions, photons, W, and Z bosons at the one-loop level. It is found that the corrections to the fermions are suppressed, whereas precise measurements of the di-photon channel of the Higgs boson decay can provide a significant probe of the model especially when the axion-like particle is heavy and its coupling to di-photon is suppressed.
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This work is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 22KJ3126 [MA]) and Scientific Research B (No. 21H01086 [ME]).
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Aiko, M., Endo, M. Higgs probes of axion-like particles. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 46 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2023)046
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