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Electroweak Couplings of the Higgs Boson at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We estimate the expected precision at a multi-TeV muon collider for measuring the Higgs boson couplings with electroweak gauge bosons, HVVHVV and HHVV (V=W±,Z)HHVV\ (V=W^\pm,Z), as well as the trilinear Higgs self-coupling HHHHHH. At very high energies both single and double Higgs productions rely on the vector-boson fusion (VBF) topology. The outgoing remnant particles have a strong tendency to stay in the very forward region, leading to the configuration of the "inclusive process" and making it difficult to isolate ZZZZ fusion events from the WWWW fusion. In the single Higgs channel, we perform a maximum likelihood analysis on HWWHWW and HZZHZZ couplings using two categories: the inclusive Higgs production and the 1-muon exclusive signal. In the double Higgs channel, we consider the inclusive production and study the interplay of the trilinear HHHHHH and the quartic VVHHVVHH couplings, by utilizing kinematic information in the invariant mass spectrum. We find that at a centre-of-mass energy of 10 TeV (30 TeV) with an integrated luminosity of 10 ab1^{-1} (90 ab1^{-1}), one may reach a 95\% confidence level sensitivity of 0.073\% (0.023\%) for WWHWWH coupling, 0.61\% (0.21\%) for ZZHZZH coupling, 0.62\% (0.20\%) for WWHHWWHH coupling, and 5.6\% (2.0\%) for HHHHHH coupling. For dim-6 operators contributing to the processes, these sensitivities could probe the new physics scale Λ\Lambda in the order of 1101-10 (2202-20) TeV at a 10 TeV (30 TeV) muon collider.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12204,
  title  = {Electroweak Couplings of the Higgs Boson at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider},
  author = {Tao Han and Da Liu and Ian Low and Xing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12204},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages, 8 figures