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Measurement of Higgs couplings and self-coupling at the ILC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In the Standard Model (SM) the couplings of the Higgs boson to SM particles and itself (self-couplings) are uniquely specified once the masses of the particles in question as well as the Higgs boson mass are given. Precision measurements of these couplings in the future collider experiments are the key to either verifying the mechanism of the electroweak symmetry breaking in the SM or uncovering physics beyond the SM. This article gives an overview of how various Higgs couplings will be measured at the ILC. Emphasis is put on the ILC's capability of performing fully model independent determination of absolute HZZHZZ and HWWHWW couplings, the Higgs total width, and hence various other Higgs couplings, which cover essentially all the crucial ones including the top-Yukawa coupling HttHtt and the trilinear Higgs self-coupling λHHH\lambda_{HHH}. The strategy to get the best precision measurements at the ILC is through staged running, which provides many independent σ×Br\sigma\times\mathrm{Br} measurements for different production channels and at different energies. A method of global fitting is discussed to utilize all of the available information and to derive combined precisions.

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@article{arxiv.1311.6528,
  title  = {Measurement of Higgs couplings and self-coupling at the ILC},
  author = {Junping Tian and Keisuke Fujii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6528},
  year   = {2013}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2013), Stockholm, Sweden, 18-24 July, 2013