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    Measuring properties of a Heavy Higgs boson in the H→ZZ→4ℓH\to ZZ \to 4\ell decay

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    In many extensions of the standard model, there exist a few extra Higgs bosons. Suppose a heavy neutral Higgs boson H is discovered at the LHC, one could then investigate CP and CPT~ properties of its couplings to a pair of ZZ bosons through H→ZZ→4ℓH \to ZZ \to 4\ell. We use the helicity-amplitude method to write down the most general form for the angular distributions of the four final-state leptons, which can cover the case of CP-even, -odd, and -mixed state for the Higgs boson. We figure out there are 9 types of angular observables and all the HH couplings to ZZ bosons can be fully determined by exploiting them. A Higgs-boson mass of 260 GeV below the ttˉt\bar t threshold is illustrated with full details. With a total of 10310^3 events of H→ZZ→4ℓH \to ZZ \to 4\ell, one can determine the couplings up to 12-20\% uncertainties.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, to appear in JHE

    Higgs-boson-pair production H(→bb‾)H(→γγ)H(\rightarrow b\overline{b})H(\rightarrow\gamma\gamma) from gluon fusion at the HL-LHC and HL-100 TeV hadron collider

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    We perform the most up-to-date comprehensive signal-background analysis for Higgs-pair production in HH→bbˉγγHH \to b\bar b \gamma\gamma channel at the HL-LHC and HL-100 TeV hadron collider, with the goal of probing the self-coupling λ3H\lambda_{3H} of the Higgs boson. We simulate all the standard-model signal and background processes with the simulation tools almost as sophisticated as what experimentalists are using. We find that even for the most promising channel HH→bbˉγγHH \to b\bar{b}\gamma\gamma at the HL-LHC with a luminosity of 3000 fb−1^{-1}, the significance is still not high enough to establish the Higgs self-coupling at the standard model (SM) value. Instead, we can only constrain the self-coupling to −1.0<λ3H<7.6-1.0 < \lambda_{3H} < 7.6 at 95% 95\% confidence level after considering the uncertainties associated with the top-Yukawa coupling and the estimation of backgrounds. Here we also extend the study to the HL-100 TeV hadron collider. With a luminosity of 3 ab−1^{-1}, we find there exists a bulk region of 2.6 \lsim \lambda_{3H} \lsim 4.8 in which one cannot pin down the trilinear coupling. Otherwise one can measure the coupling with a high precision. At the SM value, for example, we show that the coupling can be measured with about 20 \% accuracy. While assuming 30 ab−1^{-1}, the bulk region reduces to 3.1 \lsim \lambda_{3H} \lsim 4.3 and the trilinear coupling can be measured with about 7 \% accuracy at the SM value. With all the simulated background events and results, our study can be useful to probe the Higgs potential of various models with extended Higgs sector, such as two-Higgs-doublet model, MSSM, etc.Comment: 35 pages, 21 figures, 15 tables; New section V. FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS ENVISAGED added, Tables VI and XII updated, references added; New Appendix C adde
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