Higgs boson to $\gamma Z$ decay as a probe of flavour changing neutral Yukawa couplings

Abstract

With the deeper study of Higgs particle, Higgs precision measurements can be served to probe new physics indirectly. In many new physics models, vector-like quarks $T_L,T_R$ occur naturally. It is important to probe their couplings with standard model particles. In this work, we consider the singlet $T_L,T_R$ extended models and show how to constrain the $Tth$ couplings through the $h\to \gamma Z$ decay at high-luminosity LHC. Firstly, we derive the perturbative unitarity bounds on $|y_{L,R}^{tT}|$ with other couplings set to be zeros simply. To optimize the situation, we take $m_T$ = 400 GeV and $s_L$ = 0.2 considering the experimental constraints. Under this benchmark point, we find that the future bounds from $h\to \gamma Z$ decay can limit the real parts of $y_{L,R}^{tT}$ in the positive direction to be O(1) because of the double enhancement. For the real parts of $y_{L,R}^{tT}$ in the negative direction, it is always surpassed by the perturbative unitarity. Moreover, we find that the top quark electric dipole moment can give stronger bounds (especially the imaginary parts of $y_{L,R}^{tT}$) than the perturbative unitarity and $h\to \gamma Z$ decay in the off-axis regions for some scenarios.

Comments: 30 pages, 9 figures. Show the top quark EDM and $h\to \gamma Z$ constraints in the same figure. Typos corrected. References added. Match the published version in PRD. Comments are welcome