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Bounds on SMEFT affecting multi gauge and Higgs-gauge couplings using two and three body spin correlations in $e^-e^+\to 3l2j\slashed{E}$ process

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

The upcoming electron-positron collider provides an ideal place to probe deviation from the Standard Model predictions with its clean environment, beam polarization and significant luminosity. We studied anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings~(VVWW+,V{γ,Z}VVW^-W^+, V\in\{\gamma,Z\}), triple gauge couplings~(WW+γ/Z)W^-W^+\gamma/Z), and Higgs-gauge couplings (HVV,V{W±,Z,γ}(HVV, V\in\{W^\pm,Z,\gamma\}) induced by SU(2)L×U(1)YSU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y gauge invariant dimension-6 operators in 3l2j\slashedE3l2j\slashed{E} final events with initial beam polarization. The phase space of two prominent amplitudes i.e, triple gauge boson production (WWV)(WWV) and vector boson scattering sub-processes, are selected with boosted decision trees. We employ the asymmetries related to polarization and spin correlation observables along with cross~section to constrain the anomalous couplings. The parity odd polarizations and spin correlations of jets from WW boson require flavor tagging which is done using artificial neural networks. We provide one parameter limits at 95%95\% confidence level combining cross~section and spin related observables. Finally, marginalized limits on all nine anomalous couplings are obtained with MCMC analysis. The limits are found to be insensitive to systematic errors and dominated by statistics. We find that the VBS-like events provides a tighter constraints to cWc_W and cBc_B Wilson coefficients (WCs) in comparison to limits from WWZ phase space. For the remaining 77 WCs, WWZ contribute significantly to the overall limits.

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@article{arxiv.2509.01452,
  title  = {Bounds on SMEFT affecting multi gauge and Higgs-gauge couplings using two and three body spin correlations in $e^-e^+\to 3l2j\slashed{E}$ process},
  author = {Amir Subba and Ritesh K. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.01452},
  year   = {2026}
}

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39 pages, 6 figures and 2 tables