Probing Matter Unification through Higgs Physics at the LHC
Abstract
We investigate the Higgs sector phenomenology of the minimal low scale quark-lepton unification theory. In addition to the Standard Model-like Higgs boson, the theory predicts a new CP-even neutral Higgs, a CP-odd neutral Higgs, and two charged Higgses, together with heavy right-handed neutrinos and leptoquarks. We analyze the scalar spectrum, the Yukawa structure responsible for charged-fermion masses, and the neutrino sector realized through an inverse-seesaw mechanism, emphasizing that the couplings of the new Higgs bosons are directly tied to the structure of matter unification and therefore lead to characteristic decay patterns dominated by third-generation fermions. We compute the branching ratios and production cross sections of the new Higgs states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and assess their impact on present and future collider measurements. We find that current LHC data probe significant regions of parameter space for the neutral heavy Higgs bosons, with the strongest sensitivity arising from channels involving tau leptons, tops, and related final states, while the charged Higgs remains less constrained because of its electroweak production mechanism. Our results show that Higgs measurements provide a powerful and complementary probe of low-scale matter unification beyond direct leptoquark searches and open a new avenue for testing quark-lepton unification at present and future colliders, with discovery potential in high-luminosity LHC running.
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BibTeX
@misc{brettell2026probing,
title = {{Probing Matter Unification through Higgs Physics at the LHC}},
author = {Mark Brettell and Jon Butterworth and Hridoy Debnath and Pavel Fileviez Perez},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.23708},
eprint = {2609.23708},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23708},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Probing Matter Unification through Higgs Physics at the LHC
AU - Mark Brettell
AU - Jon Butterworth
AU - Hridoy Debnath
AU - Pavel Fileviez Perez
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.23708
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23708
AB - We investigate the Higgs sector phenomenology of the minimal low scale quark-lepton unification theory. In addition to the Standard Model-like Higgs boson, the theory predicts a new CP-even neutral Higgs, a CP-odd neutral Higgs, and two charged Higgses, together with heavy right-handed neutrinos and leptoquarks. We analyze the scalar spectrum, the Yukawa structure responsible for charged-fermion masses, and the neutrino sector realized through an inverse-seesaw mechanism, emphasizing that the couplings of the new Higgs bosons are directly tied to the structure of matter unification and therefore lead to characteristic decay patterns dominated by third-generation fermions. We compute the branching ratios and production cross sections of the new Higgs states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and assess their impact on present and future collider measurements. We find that current LHC data probe significant regions of parameter space for the neutral heavy Higgs bosons, with the strongest sensitivity arising from channels involving tau leptons, tops, and related final states, while the charged Higgs remains less constrained because of its electroweak production mechanism. Our results show that Higgs measurements provide a powerful and complementary probe of low-scale matter unification beyond direct leptoquark searches and open a new avenue for testing quark-lepton unification at present and future colliders, with discovery potential in high-luminosity LHC running.
ER -