Introducing tools to test Higgs interactions via $WW$ scattering II: the coupled channel formalism and scalar resonances

Abstract

In this work we explore in detail the presence of scalar resonances in $WW$ fusion process in the context of the LHC experiments working in the theoretical framework provided by Higgs Effective Field Theories (HEFT). While the phenomenology of vector resonances is reasonably understood in the framework of Weinberg sum-rules and unitarization studies, scalar resonances are a lot less constrained and, more importantly do depend on HEFT low-energy effective couplings different from the ones of vector resoances that are difficult to constrain experimentally. More specifically, unitarization techniques combined with the requirement of causality allows us to set non-trivial bounds on Higgs self-interactions. This is due to the need of considering coupled channels in the scalar case along the unitarization process. As a byproduct, we can gain some relevant information on the Higgs sector from $WW\to WW$ elastic processes without needing to consider two Higgs production.

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