Transversal modes and Higgs bosons in electroweak vector-boson scattering at the LHC.

Processes where and bosons scatter into pairs of electroweak bosons , , and Higgs, are sensitive probes of new physics in the electroweak sector. We study simplified models that describe typical scenarios of new physics and parameterize the range of possible LHC results between the standard-model prediction and unitarity limits. Extending the study beyond purely longitudinal scattering, we investigate the role of transversally polarized gauge bosons.