Improved formalism for precision Higgs coupling fits

Abstract

Future ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ colliders give the promise of model-independent determinations of the couplings of the Higgs boson. In this paper, we present an improved formalism for extracting Higgs boson couplings from ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ data, based on the effective field theory description of corrections to the Standard Model. We apply this formalism to give projections of Higgs coupling accuracies for stages of the International Linear Collider and for other proposed ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ colliders.