Author(s)
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Artoisenet, P. (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; de Aquino, P. (Brussels U., IIHE ; Intl. Solvay Inst., Brussels ; Vrije U., Brussels) ; Demartin, F. (Louvain U., CP3) ; Frederix, R. (CERN) ; Frixione, S. (CERN ; ITPP, Lausanne) ; Maltoni, F. (Louvain U., CP3) ; Mandal, M.K. (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.) ; Mathews, P. (Saha Inst.) ; Mawatari, K. (Brussels U., IIHE ; Intl. Solvay Inst., Brussels ; Vrije U., Brussels) ; Ravindran, V. (IMSc, Chennai) ; Seth, S. (Saha Inst.) ; Torrielli, P. (Zurich U.) ; Zaro, M. (Louvain U., CP3) |
Abstract
| We introduce a framework, based on an effective field theory approach, that allows one to perform characterisation studies of the boson recently discovered at the LHC, for all the relevant channels and in a consistent, systematic and accurate way. The production and decay of such a boson with various spin and parity assignments can be simulated by means of multi-parton, tree-level matrix elements and of next-to-leading order QCD calculations, both matched with parton showers. Several sample applications are presented which show, in particular, that beyond-leading-order effects in QCD have non-trivial phenomenological implications. |