Prospects for the search for Higgs bosons with vector boson fusion processes at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews the potential of vector boson fusion processes at the LHC for discovering the Higgs boson, focusing on key decay channels and the MSSM framework.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the search prospects for Higgs bosons via vector boson fusion at the LHC, including decay channels and MSSM scenarios.

Findings

Vector boson fusion offers excellent background suppression.

Decay channels H->tautau, H->WW, H->gammagamma are promising.

The discovery potential in MSSM is summarized.

Abstract

The search for the Higgs boson is one of the main physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its two multi-purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS. Vector boson fusion is the second largest production process for a standard model Higgs boson at the LHC and offers excellent means for background suppression. This paper gives an overview of the prospects of Higgs boson searches using vector boson fusion at the LHC. For a standard model Higgs boson, the decay channels H->tautau, H->WW and H->gammagamma are discussed. The discovery potential in the framework of the MSSM is summarized.