LHC Lunch
Informal lunch with occasional talks
Host: Ennio Salvioni
Speaker: Ralph Edezhath (UC Davis)
Title: Dimension-6 Operator Constraints from Boosted VBF Higgs
Room: 432
Abstract: At energies below the heavy scale of new physics, it can be described in a model-independent way through an effective field theory composed of dimension-6 operators that preserve SM gauge symmetries. I will discuss the constraints on these operators from Higgs production through vector boson fusion, and compare it to the constraints from WW production. The sensitivity to these operators is significantly improved by examining VBF at high Higgs transverse momentum. Projected limits for both at the 14 TeV LHC will be presented.
