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Higgs-Pair Production and Measurement of the Triscalar Coupling at LHC(8,14)
We simulate the measurement of the triscalar Higgs coupling at LHC(8,14) via
pair production of h(125 GeV). We find that the most promising hh final state
is bb gamma gamma. We account for deviations of the triscalar coupling from its
SM value and study the effects of this coupling on the hh cross-section and
distributions with cut-based and multivariate methods. Our fit to the hh
production matrix element at LHC(14) with 3 ab^-1 yields a 40% uncertainty on
this coupling in the SM and a range of 25-80% uncertainties for non-SM values.Comment: 4 pages, 7 page
Flat Directions in Three-Generation Free-Fermionic String Models
In quasi-realistic string models that contain an anomalous U(1) the non-zero
Fayet-Iliopoulos term triggers the shifting of the original vacuum to a new one
along some flat direction, so that SUSY is preserved but the gauge group is
partially broken. The phenomenological study of these models thus requires as a
first step the mapping of the space of flat directions. We investigate F- and
D-flat directions in several three-generation SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y
free-fermionic string models and discuss the typical scenarios that generically
arise. When they exist, we systematically construct the flat directions that
preserve hypercharge, only break Abelian group factors, and can be proven to
remain F-flat to all orders in the non-renormalizable superpotential.Comment: 59 page
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