Higgs Self Couplings Measurements at Future proton-proton Colliders: a Snowmass White Paper

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the potential for measuring Higgs boson self-couplings at future proton-proton colliders, focusing on double Higgs production channels to assess the precision achievable at HL-LHC and FCC-hh.

Contribution

It provides a detailed projection of Higgs self-coupling measurements at future colliders using multiple decay channels and considers detector performance and systematic uncertainties.

Findings

HL-LHC can set an upper limit on double Higgs production cross section of 0.76 at 95% CL.

FCC-hh could measure Higgs self-coupling with 4.8-8.5% precision at 95% CL.

Double Higgs production channels are promising for probing Higgs self-interactions.

Abstract

The Higgs boson trilinear and quartic self-couplings are directly related to the shape of the Higgs potential; measuring them with precision is extremely important, as they provide invaluable information on the electroweak symmetry breaking and the electroweak phase transition. In this paper, we perform a detailed analysis of double Higgs boson production, through the gluon gluon fusion process, in the most promising decay channels di-bottom-quark di-photons, di-bottom-quark di-tau, and four-bottom-quark for several future colliders: the HL-LHC at 14 TeV and the FCC-hh at 100 TeV, assuming respectively 3 inverse ab and 30 inverse ab of integrated luminosity. In the HL LHC scenario, we expect an upper limit on the di Higgs cross section production of 0.76 at 95% confidence level, corresponding to a significance of 2.8 sigma. In the FCC-hh scenario, depending on the assumed detector performance and systematic uncertainties, we expect that the Higgs self-coupling will be measured with a precision in the range 4.8-8.5% at 95% confidence level.