SPECIAL SEMINAR: Light-quarks Yukawa & new physics in Higgs + jet(b-jet) studies

Speaker: 
Shaouly Bar-Shalom
Institution: 
Technion
Date: 
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time: 
2:00 pm
Location: 
3122 FRH

Abstract:
I will discuss exclusive Higgs + light (or b) jet production at the LHC, pp -> h+j(jb), focusing on new physics (NP) in the light-quarks Yukawa sector and in the Higgs-gluon (hgg) and quark-gluon (qqg) interactions, which are parameterized either as scaled SM couplings (the kappa-framework) and/or through higher dimensional effective operators (the SMEFT framework). The Higgs pT distribution in pp -> h+j(jb) is studied using non-differential observables that are sensitive to the different types of NP. In particular, we find that the exclusive h+j(jb) production at the 13 TeV LHC is sensitive to the various NP scenarios, with typical scales ranging from a few to O(10) TeV, depending on the flavor, chirality and Lorentz structure of the underlying physics.       
 

Host: 
Sheldon Campbell
Felix Kling
Arvind Rajaraman
Sebastian Trojanowski