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Measuring Top Yukawa Coupling through $2\rightarrow 3$ VBS at Muon Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the measurement of top Yukawa coupling through 232\rightarrow 3 VBS at future muon colliders, focusing on the lepton and semi-lepton channels of ννtth/z\nu\nu tth/z. First, analyzing the partonic amplitudes of WLWLttˉh/ZLW_LW_L\rightarrow t\bar t h/Z_L and simulating the full processes of ννtth/z\nu\nu tth/z without decaying, we find they are highly sensitive to the anomalous top Yukawa δyt\delta y_t. This sensitivity is enhanced by selecting helicities of the final ttˉt\bar t and ZZ to be tLtˉL+tRtˉRt_L\bar t_L+t_R\bar t_R and ZLZ_L, which serves as the default and core setting of our analysis. We then obtain the limits on δyt\delta y_t with this setting, giving [1.0%,1.1%][-1.0\%, 1.1\%] for ννtth\nu\nu tth only and [0.36%,0.92%][-0.36\%, 0.92\%] for ννtth\nu\nu tth and ννttz\nu\nu ttz combined at 3030 TeV and 1σ1\sigma. Second, we proceed to analyze the processes after decaying and with background processes. To enhance the sensitivity to δyt\delta y_t, our settings include selecting the helicities of the final particles, as well as applying suitable cuts. However, we don't do bin-by-bin analysis. We obtain the limits on δyt\delta y_t for those channels at 10/3010/30 TeV and 1σ/2σ1\sigma/2 \sigma. The best limit is from the semi-lepton channel of ννtth\nu\nu tth. With spin tagging efficiency at ϵs=0.9\epsilon_s=0.9, it gives [1.6%,1.8%][-1.6\% , 1.8\%] at 1σ1\sigma and [2.4%,2.7%] [-2.4\%, 2.7\% ] at 2σ2\sigma at 3030 TeV; [7.0%,6.7%][-7.0\%, 6.7\%] at 1σ1\sigma and [9.8%,9.8%][-9.8\%, 9.8\%] at 2σ2\sigma at 1010 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.2502.08310,
  title  = {Measuring Top Yukawa Coupling through $2\rightarrow 3$ VBS at Muon Collider},
  author = {Junmou Chen and Junhong Chen and Wei He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08310},
  year   = {2025}
}