20–25 Aug 2023
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Constraints on the trilinear and quartic Higgs couplings from triple Higgs production at the LHC and beyond

23 Aug 2023, 10:10
20m
Hörsaal B (Historic main building)

Hörsaal B

Historic main building

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
Parallel session talk Higgs Physics T09 Higgs Physics

Speaker

Georg Weiglein (T (Phenomenology))

Description

Experimental information on the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling $\kappa_3$ and the quartic self-coupling $\kappa_4$ will be crucial for gaining insight into the shape of the Higgs potential and the nature of the electroweak phase transition. While Higgs pair production processes provide access to $\kappa_3$, triple Higgs production processes, despite their small cross sections, will provide valuable complementary information on $\kappa_3$ and first experimental constraints on $\kappa_4$. In this work, we consider triple Higgs production at the HL-LHC, employing efficient Graph Neural Network methodologies to maximise the statistical yield. We show that it will be possible to establish bounds on the variation of both couplings from the HL-LHC analyses that significantly go beyond the constraints from perturbative unitarity. We also discuss the prospects for the analysis of triple Higgs production at future high-energy lepton colliders operating at the TeV scale.

Collaboration / Activity T (Phenomenology)

Primary authors

Panagiotis Stylianou (T (Phenomenology)) Georg Weiglein (T (Phenomenology))

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