A fully differential SMEFT analysis of the golden channel using the method of moments
Shankha Banerjee, Rick S. Gupta, Oscar Ochoa-Valeriano, Michael Spannowsky, Elena Venturini
Abstract
A bstract The Method of Moments is a powerful framework to disentangle the relative contributions of amplitudes of a specific process to its various phase space regions. We apply this method to carry out a fully differential analysis of the Higgs decay channel h → 4 ℓ and constrain gauge-Higgs coupling modifications parametrised by dimension-six effective operators. We find that this analysis approach provides very good constraints and minimises degeneracies in the parameter space of the effective theory. By combining the decay h → 4 ℓ with Higgs-associated production processes, Wh and Zh , we obtain the strongest reported bounds on anomalous gauge-Higgs couplings.