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Interpreting the Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The LHC and Tevatron Higgs data are interpreted as constraints on an effective theory of a Higgs boson with mass close to 125 GeV. We focus on the diphoton, ZZ*, WW* channels at the LHC, and the b-bbar channel at the Tevatron, which are currently the most sensitive probes of a Higgs with such a mass. Combining the available data in these channels, we derive the preferred regions of the parameter space of the effective theory. We further provide the mapping between the effective theory and the relevant Higgs event rates, facilitating future extraction of the preferred region by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.

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@article{arxiv.1206.4201,
  title  = {Interpreting the Higgs},
  author = {Dean Carmi and Adam Falkowski and Eric Kuflik and Tomer Volansky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4201},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of the XXVI Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile 2012. v2: typos in Eq. 2.4 corrected

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