Funded by:The research of I. B. is supported by the Spanish MINECOs Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Programme under Grant No. SEV-2012-0249, and by a ESR contract of the EU
network FP7 ITN INVISIBLES (Marie Curie Actions, Grant No. PITN-GA-2011-289442). F. G. acknowledges the support of a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship within the EU FP7
(Grant No. PIEF-GA-2013-628224). The research of G. I. is supported in part by the Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNF) under Contract No. 200021-159720
Project:info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/289442; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/628224; Gobierno de España. SEV-2012-0249
We propose a new method for determining the coupling of the Higgs boson to charm quarks, via Higgs production in association with a charm-tagged jet: pp→hc. As a first estimate, we find that at the LHC with 3000 fb-1, it should be possible to derive a constraint of order one, relative to the standard model (SM) value of the charm Yukawa coupling. As a by-product of this analysis, we present an estimate of the exclusive pp→HD(∗) electroweak cross section. Within the SM, the latter turns out to be not accessible at the LHC even in the high-luminosity phase