We investigate the determination of Higgs boson couplings to gauge bosons and
fermions at the LHC from data on Higgs boson production and decay. We
demonstrate that very mild theoretical assumptions, which are valid in general
multi-Higgs doublet models, are sufficient to allow the extraction of absolute
values of the couplings rather than just ratios of the couplings. For Higgs
masses below 200 GeV we find accuracies of 10-40% for the Higgs couplings and
the total Higgs boson width after several years of LHC running. The sensitivity
of the Higgs coupling measurements to deviations from the Standard Model
predictions is studied for an MSSM scenario.Comment: 9 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the XXXIXth Rencontres de
Moriond, La Thuile, March 200