Determining the CP Property of htt Coupling via a Novel Jet Substructure Observable

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Abstract

Determining the CP property of the Higgs boson is important for a precision test of the Standard Model as well as for the search for new physics. We propose a novel jet substructure observable based on the azimuthal anisotropy in a linearly polarized gluon jet that is produced in association with a Higgs boson at hadron colliders, and demonstrate that it provides a new CP-odd observable for determining the CP property of the Higgs-top interaction. We introduce a factorization formalism to define a polarized gluon jet function with the insertion of an infrared-safe azimuthal observable to capture the linear polarization.

*This work is in part supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-2013791. CPY is also grateful for the support from the Wu-Ki Tung endowed chair in particle physics.

Publication: arXiv:2211.00845

Presenters

  • Zhite Yu

    • Michigan State University

Authors

  • Zhite Yu

    • Michigan State University
  • Kirtimaan A Mohan

    • Michigan State University
  • C.-P. Yuan

    • Michigan State University