https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15417-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
NLO QCD effects on angular observables in 
in presence of non-standard HVV couplings
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, IV Cross Road, Taramani, 600113, Chennai, India
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Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, Manauli, PO, 140306, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, India
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Received:
19
September
2025
Accepted:
7
February
2026
Published online:
27
February
2026
Abstract
The single Higgs production in neutral-current (NC) and charged-current (CC) processes at an electron–proton (ep) collider is a useful channel to probe new physics effects in the Higgs coupling to vector boson (HVV). In this context, observables sensitive to non-standard couplings previously studied at leading order require improved theoretical precision through the inclusion of radiative corrections. In this work, we present a fully differential Higgs plus one jet production at next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy in QCD for both the NC and CC processes. For the proposed Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) configuration, with a 60 GeV electron beam and a 7 TeV proton beam, the total cross sections receive modest corrections with significantly reduced scale uncertainties. We find that in several kinematic distributions which are relevant to the analysis of HVV couplings, the NLO K-factors are not flat. Within the Standard Model, the polar angle of the electron (for NC) and the azimuthal angular correlation (for both NC and CC processes) receive maximum corrections in the range of 8-10% in certain bins. We also compute NLO QCD corrections in the presence of non-standard HVV interactions. The corrections in the azimuthal angular correlations are similar to the standard model predictions. For the polar angle of the electron, the corrections are sensitive to the nature of the HVV coupling.
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