Tyler Corbett, O. J. P. Eboli, J. Gonzalez-Fraile, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia
The recently announced Higgs discovery marks the dawn of the direct probing of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. Sorting out the dynamics responsible for the electroweak symmetry breaking now requires probing the Higgs interactions and searching for additional states connected to this sector. In this work we analyze the constraints on Higgs couplings to the standard model gauge bosons using the available data from Tevatron and LHC. We work in a model--independent framework expressing the departure of the Higgs couplings to gauge bosons by dimension--six effective operators. This allows for independent modifications of its couplings to gluons, photons and weak gauge bosons while still preserving the SM gauge invariance. Our results indicate that best overall agreement with data is obtained if the cross section of Higgs production via gluon fusion is suppressed with respect to its Standard Model (SM) value and the Higgs branching ratio into two photons is enhanced while keeping the production and decays associated to couplings to weak gauge bosons closer to their SM value .
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1344
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