Higgs Decays at NLO in the SMEFT

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Authors: Luigi Bellafronte, Sally DAWSON, Clara Lavinia Del Pio, Matthew Forslund, Pier Paolo Giardino
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Abstract

The calculation of precise predictions for Higgs decays is a necessary ingredient for determining Higgs properties at the LHC and future colliders. We compute all two- and three-body Higgs decays at next-to-leading order (NLO) in both QCD and electroweak interactions using the dimension-6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Results for four-body Higgs decays that are accurate to NLO QCD/electroweak order in the SMEFT are obtained using the narrow width approximation. Our results are contained in a flexible Monte Carlo program, NEWiSH, that is publicly available and we illustrate the impact of the NLO electroweak corrections for HL-LHC, Tera-Z, and Higgstrahlung projections.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
14 January 2026
Document type
Preprint