Speaker
Mr
Sam Jones
(University of Southampton)
Description
The production of a Higgs Boson with a single top quark is a channel that allows a direct probe of the top Yukawa coupling. While the SM cross-section for pp > thj is small (approx 70fb) due to destructive interference between the W fusion and top emission diagrams as the integrated luminosity of the LHC increases the signal could be extracted from both hh > gamma gamma and h to b bar{b}.
We will discuss how this process could be sensitive to the sign of the top Yukawa coupling and the effect of a change in sign of tbar{t}h on the overall cross section. Furthermore exploration of the 2HDM allows the inclusion of an additional associated diagram and the possibility of further BSM physics.
Primary authors
Mr
Sam Jones
(University of Southampton)
Stefano Moretti
(University of Southampton)
Pankaj Sharma
(CoEPP, Adelaide)
Saurabh Rindani
