Anomalous Higgs Couplings in the $SO(5)\times U(1)_{B-L}$ Gauge-Higgs Unification in Warped Spacetime

Abstract

The gauge couplings $WWZ$, $WWWW$, and $WWZZ$ in the gauge-Higgs unification scenario in the Randall-Sundrum warped spacetime remain almost universal as in the standard model, but substantial deviation results for the Higgs couplings. In the $SO(5)\times U(1)_{B-L}$ model, the couplings $WWH$ and $ZZH$ are suppressed by a factor $\cos \theta_H$ from the values in the standard model, while the bare couplings $WWHH$ and $ZZHH$ are suppressed by a factor $1-(2/3)\sin^2 \theta_H$. Here $\theta_H$ is the Yang-Mills AB phase (Wilson line phase) along the fifth dimension, which characterizes the electroweak symmetry breaking. The suppression can be used to test the gauge-Higgs unification scenario at LHC and ILC. It is also shown that the $WWZ$ coupling in flat spacetime deviates from the standard model value at moderate values of $\theta_H$, contradicting with the LEP2 data.