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Electroweak oblique parameters as a probe of the trilinear Higgs boson self-interaction

Kribs, Graham D.; Maier, Andreas; Rzehak, Heidi; Spannowsky, Michael; Waite, Philip

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Authors

Graham D. Kribs

Andreas Maier

Heidi Rzehak

Philip Waite



Abstract

We calculate the two-loop contributions from a modified trilinear Higgs self-interaction, κλλSMvh3, to the electroweak oblique parameters S and T. Using the current bounds on S and T from electroweak measurements, we find the 95% C.L. constraint on the modified trilinear coupling to be −14.0≤κλ≤17.4. The largest effects on S and T arise from two insertions of the modified trilinear coupling that result in T/S≃−3/2; remarkably, this is nearly parallel to the axis of the tightest experimental constraint in the S-T plane. No contributions to S and T arise from a modified Higgs quartic coupling at two-loop order. These calculations utilized a gauge-invariant parameterization of the trilinear Higgs coupling in terms of higher dimensional operators (H†H)n with n≥3. Interestingly, the bounds on κλ that we obtain are comparable to constraints from di-Higgs production at the LHC as well as recent bounds from single Higgs production at the LHC.

Citation

Kribs, G. D., Maier, A., Rzehak, H., Spannowsky, M., & Waite, P. (2017). Electroweak oblique parameters as a probe of the trilinear Higgs boson self-interaction. Physical Review D, 95(9), Article 093004. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.093004

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date May 30, 2017
Publication Date May 30, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 19, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jun 30, 2017
Journal Physical Review D
Print ISSN 2470-0010
Electronic ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 95
Issue 9
Article Number 093004
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.093004

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