Off-shell Higgs Couplings in $H^*\to ZZ\to \ell\ellνν$ (2012.05272v1)

Abstract: We explore the new physics reach for the off-shell Higgs boson measurement in the ${pp \to H^* \rightarrow Z(\ell^{+}\ell^{-})Z(\nu\bar{\nu})}$ channel at the high-luminosity LHC. The new physics sensitivity is parametrized in terms of the Higgs boson width, effective field theory framework, and a non-local Higgs-top coupling form factor. Adopting Machine-learning techniques, we demonstrate that the combination of a large signal rate and a precise phenomenological probe for the process energy scale, due to the transverse $ZZ$ mass, leads to significant sensitivities beyond the existing results in the literature for the new physics scenarios considered.