Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector

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This Report summarizes the results of the activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group in the period 2014-2016.

• The main goal of the working group was to present the state-of-the-art of Higgs physics at the LHC, integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years.
• The first part compiles the most up-to-date predictions of Higgs boson production cross sections and decay branching ratios, parton distribution functions, and off-shell Higgs boson production and interference effects.
• The second part discusses the recent progress in Higgs effective field theory predictions, followed by the third part on pseudo-observables, simplified template cross section and fiducial cross section measurements, which give the baseline framework for Higgs boson property measurements.