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The Two Scales of New Physics in Loop-Induced Higgs Couplings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Probing new physics through precise measurements of Higgs boson couplings is a central objective of the particle collider program at the high-energy frontier. An anomaly in Higgs couplings induced solely by new fermions allows one to compute an upper bound on the mass scale of new bosons. This new bosonic scale is necessary to prevent Landau poles or vacuum instability. Consequently, a single anomalous measurement can provide insight into two distinct new physics scales. In this article, we apply this approach to the loop-induced couplings of the Higgs boson to digluons (gggg), diphotons (γγ\gamma \gamma), and ZγZ \gamma, and we compare our results to the projected sensitivities of the HL-LHC and future lepton colliders. This work naturally extends our previous analysis of Higgs couplings to weak dibosons (WWWW and ZZZZ).

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@article{arxiv.2412.14237,
  title  = {The Two Scales of New Physics in Loop-Induced Higgs Couplings},
  author = {Florian Nortier and Gabriele Rigo and Pablo Sesma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14237},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages + references, 12 figures; updates in agreement with published version