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The effective Lagrangian expansion provides a framework to study effects of new physics at the electroweak scale. To make full use of LHC data in constraining higher-dimensional operators we need to include both the Higgs and the electroweak gauge sector in our study. We first present an analysis of the relevant di-boson production LHC results to update constraints on triple gauge boson couplings. Our bounds are several times stronger than those obtained from LEP data. Next, we show how in combination with Higgs measurements the triple gauge vertices lead to a significant improvement in the entire set of operators, including operators describing Higgs couplings.
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Butter, A., Éboli, O.J., Gonzalez-Fraile, J. et al. The gauge-Higgs legacy of the LHC Run I. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 152 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)152
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