Speaker
Fady Bishara
(U. of Cincinnati & Fermilab)
Description
We explore the sensitivity of the $pp\rightarrow W^\pm W^\pm jj$ process to deviations of the Higgs-vector coupling from its SM value. Since the Higgs-mediated contribution does not depend on other Higgs couplings and is independent of the total Higgs width to a good approximation, we can probe the Higgs-vector coupling directly. In the standard model, the Higgs channel does not give a sizeable contribution to the pure electroweak process at $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. However, we show that a set of optimized cuts and kinematic observables would allow us to set a stringent upper bound on enhanced Higgs-vector couplings by the end of the High Luminosity LHC run with $\sim 3~\text{ab}^{-1}$ of data.
Primary authors
Fady Bishara
(U. of Cincinnati & Fermilab)
Felix Yu
(Fermilab)
Roni Harnik
(Fermilab)
