VBF + Photon: A New Mode for Hadronic Final States for the HL-LHC

Some two Higgs doublet models predict the decay of the Higgs boson to two spin-zero bosons, where the dominant decay mode is to two bottom quarks. The channel remains a significant challenge for the LHC, due to the enormous hadronic background and challenge defining trigger strategies. We present a preliminary analysis of Monte Carlo simulations of this process, focusing on the VBF production mechanism with an additional associated photon.