Disentangling Dimension Six Operators through Di-Higgs Boson Production

Abstract

New physics near the TeV scale can generate dimension-six operators that modify the production rate and branching ratios of the Higgs boson. Here, we show how Higgs boson pair production can yield complementary information on dimension-six operators involving the gluon field strength. For example, the invariant mass distribution of the Higgs boson pair can show the extent to which the masses of exotic TeV-scale quarks come from electroweak symmetry breaking. We discuss both the current Tevatron bounds on these operators and the most promising LHC measurement channels for two different Higgs masses: 120 GeV and 180 GeV. We argue that the operators considered in this paper are the ones most likely to yield interesting Higgs pair physics at the LHC.

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures; v2: to match JHEP version