Bounding the Higgs Width Using Effective Field Theory

Abstract

An interesting question is how present and future experiments will be able to probe the couplings of the Higgs boson and its intrinsic width at a high level of precision. There is a wide variety of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories where the Higgs couplings differ from the Standard Model (SM) ones by less that 10%. We take the SM as the theory of "light" degrees of freedom, i.e. d=4 operators and simulate the unknown extension of the SM by the most general set of d=6 operators. In particular we provide an explicit example of momentum-dependent modification of Higgs couplings.

Comments: Talk given at Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, 27 April 2014 - 02 May 2014, Weimar, Germany