Azimuthal angle correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at LHC

Abstract

Higgs boson and massive‐graviton plus two jet productions via vector‐boson fusion (VBF) processes at hadron colliders are studied. They include scalar and tensor boson production processes via weak‐boson fusion in quark‐quark collisions, gluon fusion in quark‐quark, quark‐gluon and gluon‐gluon collisions. We show that the VBF amplitudes dominate the exact matrix elements not only for the weak‐boson fusion processes but also for all the gluon fusion processes when selection cuts to enhance the VBF events are applied, such as a large rapidity separation between two jets.