Higgs boson decay into photons through a spin-2 loop

A new particle with proprieties similar to those of the Higgs boson in the Standard Model has been recently discovered. The biggest discrepancy is related to its diphoton decay, whose branching ratio seems to be around two times larger with respect to the correspondent Standard Model value; this evidence, even if still affected by large uncertainties, suggests that clues of new physics related to the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry could be hidden under this loop-induced process. A new strongly coupled sector responsible for this breaking, for instance, could produce in analogy with QCD a charged massive spin-2 state. In light of these arguments we calculate and discuss the role of such a resonance in the diphoton decay width of the Higgs. © 2013 American Physical Society.