The HiggsTools Handbook: Concepts and observables for deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector
2017
This Report summarizes some of the activities of the HiggsTools Initial Training Network
working groupin the period 2015-2017. The main goal of this
working groupwas to produce a document discussing various aspects of state-of-the-art Higgs physics at the
Large Hadron Collider(LHC) in a pedagogic manner. The first part of the Report is devoted to a description of phenomenological searches for New Physics at the LHC. As the experimental measurements become more and more precise, there is a pressing need for a consistent framework in which deviations from the SM predictions can be computed precisely. We critically review the use of the \k{appa}-framework, fiducial and simplified template cross sections,
effective field theories, pseudo-observables and phenomenological Lagrangians. In the second part of the Report, we propose $\varphi_{\eta}^*$ as a new and complementary observable for studying
Higgs bosonproduction at large transverse momentum in the case where the
Higgs bosondecays to two photons. We make a detailed study of the phenomenology of the $\varphi_{\eta}^*$ variable, contrasting the behaviour with the Higgs transverse momentum distribution using a variety of theoretical tools including
event generatorsand fixed order perturbative computations.
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