2014

Higgs Self-Coupling Measurements at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider

Barr, Alan J., Dolan, Matthew J., Englert, Christoph et al.

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An important physics goal of a possible next-generation high-energy hadron collider will be precision characterisation of the Higgs sector and electroweak symmetry breaking.

  • A crucial part of understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking is measuring the Higgs self-interactions.
  • We study dihiggs production in proton-proton collisions at 100 TeV centre of mass energy in order to estimate the sensitivity such a machine would have to variations in the trilinear Higgs coupling around the Standard Model expectation.
  • We focus on the two b-jets plus diphotons final state, including possible enhancements in sensitivity by exploiting dihiggs recoils against a hard jet.

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