Higgs branching-fraction normalization from mass-weighted channels

ID: higgs-branching-fraction-normalization-from-mass-weighted-channels

At leading order, neglecting phase-space suppression and radiative corrections, Higgs decay to a fermion pair has partial decay width proportional to , with for a quark and one for a lepton. A known sum of branching fractions therefore fixes the proportionality between these weights and individual branching fractions without requiring the Higgs vacuum expectation value. The same normalization estimates a small additional fermionic channel if its weight is not included in the known sum.

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