Probing the Charm Yukawa Coupling in Higgs + Charm Production

Understand

We propose a new method to determine the coupling of the Higgs boson to charm quarks, via Higgs production in association with a charm-tagged jet: $pp\to hc$.

• As a first estimate, we find that at the LHC with 3000 fb$^{-1}$ it should be possible to derive a constraint of order one, relative to the SM value of the charm Yukawa coupling.
• As a byproduct of this analysis, we present an estimate of the exclusive $pp \to hD^{(*)}$ electroweak cross section.
• Within the SM, the latter turns out to be not accessible at the LHC even in the high-luminosity phase.