Effect of Anomalous Couplings on the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a Higgs Boson at the LHC

Abstract

We consider the production of a single top quark in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC. In particular, we compute the cross sections for the processes $pp\to thj$, $thb$, $thW$, $thjj$, $thjb$, $thWj$, $thWb$ in the presence of the anomalous $Wtb,WWh$ and $tth$ couplings. We find that the anomalous $Wtb$ and $tth$ couplings can enhance the cross sections significantly. We also analyze a few signatures and show that, if these couplings are indeed anomalous, then with enough data, one should be able to observe the production of the Higgs boson in association with single top quark.

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. Typos fixed, reference added. Journal version