Measuring the Higgs-bottom coupling in weak boson fusion

Englert, Christoph; Mattelaer, Olivier; Spannowsky, Michael

Abstract

We study Higgs production through weak boson fusion with subsequent decay to bottom quarks. By combining jet substructure techniques and matrix element methods in different limits we motivate this channel as a probe of the bottom-Yukawa interactions in the boosted regime. In particular we ameliorate the “no-go” results of cut-and-count analyses in this channel. After applying a data-driven reconstruction approach we find that the Higgs-bottom coupling can be limited to View the MathML source with 600 fb−1.

Citation

Englert, C., Mattelaer, O., & Spannowsky, M. (2016). Measuring the Higgs-bottom coupling in weak boson fusion. Physics Letters B, 756, 103-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.074

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 28, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Mar 4, 2016
• Publication Date: May 10, 2016
• Deposit Date: Nov 10, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 26, 2017
• Journal: Physics Letters B
• Print ISSN: 0370-2693
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-2445
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 756
• Pages: 103-108
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.074
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1393577