2015/12/18 by Admir Greljo, Gino Isidori, Jonas M. Lindert +1 · 43 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Large Hadron Collider #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Production (economics) #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Technicolor #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4000-5
published in The European Physical Journal C 76(3) (Springer Science+Business Media) · 34 pages, 12 figures, 1 table
arxiv created 2015/12/18 · openalex publication_date 2016/03/01 · arxiv updated 2016/04/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We discuss how the leading electroweak Higgs production processes at the LHC, namely vector-boson fusion and Higgs +W/Z associated production, can be characterized in generic extensions of the Standard Model by a proper set of pseudo-observables (PO). We analyze the symmetry properties of these PO and their relation with the PO set appearing in Higgs decays. We discuss in detail the kinematical studies necessary to extract the production PO from data, and present a first estimate of the LHC sensitivity on these observables in the high-luminosity phase. The impact of QCD corrections and the kinematical studies necessary to test the validity of the momentum expansion at the basis of the PO decomposition are also discussed.