title: Constraining Light-Quark Yukawa Couplings from Higgs Distributions.
abstract: We propose a novel strategy to constrain the bottom and charm Yukawa couplings by exploiting Large Hadron Collider (LHC) measurements of transverse momentum distributions in Higgs production. Our method does not rely on the reconstruction of exclusive final states or heavy-flavor tagging. Compared to other proposals, it leads to an enhanced sensitivity to the Yukawa couplings due to distortions of the differential Higgs spectra from emissions which either probe quark loops or are associated with quark-initiated production. We derive constraints using data from LHC run I, and we explore the prospects of our method at future LHC runs. Finally, we comment on the possibility of bounding the strange Yukawa coupling.
authors.affiliation: Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3NP Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Fady
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bishara
authors.affiliation: Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3NP Oxford, United Kingdom.|CERN, Theoretical Physics Department, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Haisch
authors.affiliation: Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3NP Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Pier Francesco
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Monni
authors.affiliation: LAPTh, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, B.P.110, Annecy-le-Vieux F-74941, France.
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Re