Phenomenology of GeV-scale scalar portal

Abstract

Abstract We review and revise the phenomenology of the scalar portal — a new scalar particle with the mass in GeV range that mixes with the Higgs boson. In particular, we consider production channels B → SK 1(1270) and $$ B\to S{K}_0^{\ast }(700) $$ B → S K 0 ∗ 700 and show that their contribution is significant. We extend the previous analysis by comparing the production of scalars from decays of mesons, of the Higgs bosons and direct production via proton bremsstrahlung, deep inelastic scattering and coherent scattering on nuclei. Relative efficiency of the production channels depends on the energy of the beam and we consider the energies of DUNE, SHiP and LHC-based experiments. We present our results in the form directly suitable for calculations of experimental sensitivities.