Higgs Pair Production at the LHC
Marina Billoni (Universität Freiburg)

Higgs pair production provides important information about the specific shape of the Higgs potential, in particular about the triple-Higgs coupling. With the recent detection of a new particle at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, the experimental reconstruction of the Higgs potential will certainly present a crucial test of the Standard Model (SM) in the future. Therefore precise theoretical predictions for the different production rates of Higgs pairs are mandatory.

We focus on neutral Higgs pair production in association with an additional vector boson at the LHC within the SM and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We show results for the total inclusive cross sections at next-to-leading order QCD and investigate contributions coming from enhanced b-quark Yukawa couplings within the MSSM.