Measuring the Higgs boson self-coupling at the LHC using ratios of cross sections

Abstract

We consider the ratio between the double and single Higgs production cross sections and examine the prospect of measuring the trilinear Higgs self-coupling using this observable. Such a ratio has a reduced theoretical (scale) uncertainty than the double Higgs cross section. We find that with 600/fb, the 14 TeV LHC can constraint the trilinear Higgs self coupling to be positive, and with 3000/fb one could measure it with a +30 % {-20 %}) accuracy.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 25th "Rencontres de Blois", Blois, France, May 27-31, 2013