Tuesday, November 20, 2012

1211.4362 (Pankaj Agrawal et al.)

Effect of Anomalous Couplings on the Associated Production of a Single
Top Quark and a Higgs Boson at the LHC
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Pankaj Agrawal, Subhadip Mitra, Ambresh Shivaji
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 $p p \to t h j$, $t h b$, $t h W$, $t h j j$, $t h j b$, $t h W j$, $t h W b$ in presence of the anomalous $W t b, W W h$ and $t t h$ couplings. We find that the anomalous $Wtb$ and $tth$ couplings can enhance the cross sections significantly. 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 a single top quark.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4362

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