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Shining light on the Higgs: Study of the Higgs boson couplings to photons at the Large Hadron Collider

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Abstract

A study of anomalous Higgs boson interactions in production and decay was conducted with the JHUGenerator framework, focusing on photon couplings. The framework includes an event generator, the MELA library for matrix element analyses, and the JHUGenLexicon interface. The latter relates anomalous coupling formulation with popular EFT bases, allowing comparisons between kinematic distributions in multiple frameworks. The study also includes a comparison of next-leading-order electroweak corrections to the effects from the photon couplings under the effective field theory framework. Some of the content is illustrated with projections for experimental measurements with the full LHC and HL-LHC datasets.

Publication: "Constraining anomalous Higgs boson couplings to virtual photons" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13363]

Presenters

  • Lucas S Mandacaru Guerra

    Johns Hopkins University

Authors

  • Lucas S Mandacaru Guerra

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Jeffrey R Davis

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Andrei Gritsan

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Savvas Kyriacou

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Jeffrey S Roskes

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Markus Schulze

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin