Probing the Charm Yukawa Coupling in Higgs + Charm Production
Abstract
We propose a new method to determine the coupling of the Higgs boson to charm quarks, via Higgs production in association with a charm-tagged jet: pp hc. As a first estimate, we find that at the LHC with 3000 fb-1 it should be possible to derive a constraint of order one, relative to the SM value of the charm Yukawa coupling. As a byproduct of this analysis, we present an estimate of the exclusive pp hD(*) electroweak cross section. Within the SM, the latter turns out to be not accessible at the LHC even in the high-luminosity phase.
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