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# Determining the structure of Higgs couplings at the CERN LargeHadron Collider.

• ##### D. Zeppenfeld
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Physical Review Letters (Impact Factor: 7.73). 03/2002; 88(5):051801. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.051801
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ABSTRACT Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has the capability to determine the dominant CP nature of a Higgs boson, via the tensor structure of its coupling to weak bosons. This information is contained in the azimuthal angle distribution of the two outgoing forward tagging jets. The technique is independent of both the Higgs boson mass and the observed decay channel.

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