Measuring the Higgs sector

@article{Lafaye2009MeasuringTH,
  title={Measuring the Higgs sector},
  author={Remi Lafaye and Tilman Plehn and Michael Rauch and Dirk Zerwas and Michael D{\"u}hrssen},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2009},
  volume={2009},
  pages={009-009}
}
If we find a light Higgs boson at the LHC, there should be many observable channels which we can exploit to measure the relevant parameters in the Higgs sector. We use the SFitter framework to map these measurements on the parameter space of a general weak-scale effective theory with a light Higgs state of mass 120 GeV. Our analysis benefits from the parameter determination tools and the error treatment used in new-physics searches, to study individual parameters and their error bars as well as… 
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