Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in h-> 4l at the LHC.

摘要

The authors explore the sensitivity of the Higgs decay to four leptons, the so-called golden channel, to higher dimensional loop-induced couplings of the Higgs boson to ZZ, Z(ganmma), and gamma gamma, allowing for general CP mixtures. The larger standard model tree level coupling hZ(sub mu)Z(mu) is the dominant 'background' for the loop induced couplings. However this large background interferes with the smaller loop induced couplings, enhancing the sensitivity. They perform a maximum liklihood analysis based on analytic expressions of the fully differential decay width for h->4l (4l=2e2mu, 4e, 4mu) including all intereference effects. They find that the spectral shapes induced by Higgs couplings to photons are particularly different than the hZ(sub mu)Zmu background leading to enhanced sensitivity to these couplings. The authors show that even if the h->gamma gamma and h->4l rates agree with that predicted by the Standard Model, the golden channel has the potential to probe both the CP nature as well as the overall sign of the Higgs coupling to photons well before the end of high-luminosity LHC running (approximately 3 ab(sub -1)).