8–12 Sept 2025
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
US/Eastern timezone

Quantum properties of H → V V ∗ : precise predictions in the SM and sensitivity to new physics

9 Sept 2025, 14:44
17m
Meeting Room 102

Meeting Room 102

Speaker

Priyanka Lamba

Description

We study the quantum properties of the Higgs-boson decays into four fermions via two vector bosons (H→VV^∗→4f). In particular, we focus on the case of two different-flavour lepton pairs (H→ZZ^∗→μ+μ−e+e−). We compute the quantum-information observables for the corresponding two-qutrit system (ZZ) at next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) accuracy in the SM. We find that NLO EW corrections lead to giant (order 1) effects in some specific cases and significantly alter the extraction of the observables quantifying the quantum correlations. We identify the observables that are robust and can be used to extract reliable information. Finally we discuss possible new physics (NP) effects, parametrised via an effective-field-theory approach. We show how quantum observables can increase the sensitivity to NP also for the process considered in this study.

Track 5: Higgs, electroweak, BSM physics

Authors

Davide Pagani (INFN, Bologna (IT)) Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna) Federica Fabbri (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Morgan Del gratta (University of Bologna) Priyanka Lamba

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