4–8 Aug 2015
America/Detroit timezone

Tools for the Higgs boson CP studies: JHUGen and MELA

4 Aug 2015, 16:30
30m
Kalamazoo (Michigan League)

Kalamazoo

Michigan League

Electroweak and Higgs Theory EWK and Higgs Sector

Speaker

Heshy Roskes (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Description

In this talk we discuss the MC simulation (JHUGen) and analysis tools based on matrix element approach (MELA) to study the extent to which CP parity of a Higgs boson H(125), and more generally its anomalous couplings to gauge bosons and fermions, can be measured in Run2 of LHC. We consider several production processes, including Higgs boson production in gluon and weak boson fusion and production of a Higgs boson in association with an electroweak gauge boson or heavy-flavor quarks. Both on-shell and off-shell production of the H(125) boson are considered. In the study of decay kinematic correlations, we consider decays of a Higgs boson to ZZ, Zgamma, gamma gamma, and WW, with either real or virtual bosons.
Oral or Poster Presentation Oral

Primary authors

Andrei Gritsan (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Fabrizio Caola (CERN) Heshy Roskes (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Markus Christian Schulze (CERN) Meng Xiao (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Ulascan Sarica (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

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