  The most likely spin assignments of the recently discovered 126 GeV resonance
are spin 0 or 2. In order to distinguish the two, we construct an effective
Lagrangian model which comprises interactions of a spin-2 electroweak singlet
or triplet state with the SM gauge bosons. Within this model, cross sections
and differential distributions are calculated and implemented within the Monte
Carlo program VBFNLO, which simulates vector-boson-fusion processes at hadron
colliders at NLO QCD accuracy. We study the phenomenology of spin-2 resonances
produced in vector-boson-fusion processes at the LHC. Specifically, we consider
light Higgs-like spin-2 resonances decaying into two photons and show how
angular distributions allow us to distinguish between a Standard Model Higgs
and a spin-2 resonance. We also investigate the characteristics of heavy spin-2
resonances which decay into two weak gauge bosons, leading to a four-lepton
final state.
