NLO qq -> ZH production and Effective Lagrangians for BSM Higgs Physics

The naturalness issue is a compelling reason for the emergence of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Absence of hints in direct searches makes the model-independent Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to Higgs physics interesting. It is important that to establish to which extent the new boson discovered at LHC is the scalar particle predicted by the SM. BSM physics can change the HZZ coupling that associated ZH production probes. Model-independent extensions of the SM can describe possible changes, described in a field-theoretical way, via an extended Lagrangian with the SM fields. In this project, Higgs boson is Attached to WeaK bosons (HAWK) and Madgraph5 are used as a Monte Carlo (MC) generator to distinguish higher-order SM corrections from actual BSM manifestations and this study attempts to address is whether one can “calibrate” EFT calculations to match the most accurate SM predictions.