Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 3181
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3181-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Probing compositeness with Higgs Boson decays at the LHC

¹ DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
² Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
³ Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK

^* e-mail: maria.hoffmann@cern.ch

Received: 31 July 2014
Accepted: 12 November 2014
Published online: 26 November 2014

Abstract

A method is proposed to directly probe the Higgs boson compositeness using the unique characteristics of a boosted Higgs boson produced in association with a weak gauge boson (). The discovery potential for the upcoming LHC running is presented, showing that compositeness scales up to 3 TeV can be probed at the LHC with an integrated luminosity of fb collected at TeV.