Constraints on the trilinear Higgs self coupling from precision observables

Abstract

We present the constraints on the trilinear Higgs self coupling that arise from loop effects in the W boson mass and the effective sine predictions. We compute the contributions to these precision observables of two-loop diagrams featuring an anomalous trilinear Higgs self coupling. We explicitly show that the same anomalous contributions are found if the analysis of mW and sin2θefflep is performed in a theory in which the scalar potential in the Standard Model Lagrangian is modified by an (in)finite tower of (Φ†Φ)n terms with Φ the Higgs doublet. We find that the bounds on the trilinear Higgs self coupling from precision observables are competitive with those coming from Higgs pair production.