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Maria Cepeda

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Projections of H$\to\tau\tau$ cross-section at FCC-ee

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) stands at the forefront of the European Strategy for Particle Physics as the future flagship project at CERN. The H$\to\tau\tau$ decay, featuring a large branching ratio, clean identification in the FCC-ee environment, and the possibility to reconstruct polarization information, is an excellent channel to measure Higgs boson properties. This work shows the expected precision for the H$\to\tau\tau$ cross-section measurement at the FCC-ee in the ZH production mechanism at $\sqrt{s}=$240 GeV and $\sqrt{s}=$365 GeV, as well as via the vector boson fusion process at $\sqrt{s}=$365 GeV. Furthermore, we explore and evaluate a set of methods for reconstructing tau decays. These techniques are critical for unlocking the full physics potential of the FCC-ee and for improving the understanding of tau-related observables in both Standard Model measurements and New Physics searches. The results obtained significantly enhance the FCC-ee outlook in the H$\to\tau\tau$ channel, improving it by at least an order of magnitude compared to the current sensitivity of measurements' performance at the LHC.

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Exotic Higgs Decays

Exotic decays of the Standard Model-like Higgs boson into beyond-the-Standard Model particles are predicted in a wide range of well-motivated theories. The enormous samples of Higgs bosons that have been and will be produced at the Large Hadron Collider thus constitute one of the key discovery opportunities at that facility, particularly in the upcoming high-statistics high-luminosity run. Here we review recent theoretical work on models that predict or accommodate exotic Higgs decays, the status of current experimental searches, and look forward to future capabilities at dedicated Higgs factories and beyond.

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