Journal article

Higgs self-coupling measurements at a 100 TeV hadron collider

AJ Barr, MJ Dolan, C Englert, DEF de Lima, M Spannowsky

Journal of High Energy Physics | Published : 2015

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Abstract

Abstract: An important physics goal of a possible next-generation high-energy hadron collider will be precision characterisation of the Higgs sector and electroweak symmetry breaking. A crucial part of understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking is measuring the Higgs self-interactions. We study dihiggs production in proton-proton collisions at 100 TeV centre of mass energy in order to estimate the sensitivity such a machine would have to variations in the trilinear Higgs coupling around the Standard Model expectation. We focus on the (Formula presented.) final state, including possible enhancements in sensitivity by exploiting dihiggs recoils against a hard jet. We find that i..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by European Commission


Funding Acknowledgements

CE is supported by the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology Associateship programme. This research was supported in part by the European Commission through the 'HiggsTools' Initial Training Network PITN-GA-2012-316704. AJB gratefully acknowledges the support of U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council, the IPPP (Durham), and Merton College, Oxford.