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Higgs to from Vector Boson Fusion for High-Scale Physics
Vector boson fusion is arguably the most direct collider probe of electroweak
symmetry breaking. Typically, the signature includes two forward/backward jets
with low transverse momenta with a scale that is set by the mass of the vector
boson. For this reason, an upper cut is used when searching for vector boson
fusion processes in the Standard Model. Alternatively, the upper cut on the
forward jets can be removed and the high-momentum exchange region of vector
boson fusion can be studied. This phase space region has sensitivity to new
physics via higher dimensional operators and form factors. In this work, we
study the high-momentum region of the vector boson fusion channel where the
Higgs decays to . We show that, depending on the form of new physics,
the limits on the new physics scale range from 0.5 TeV to 1.8 TeV.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 table