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Precision from the diphoton Zh channel at FCC-hh

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The future 100 TeV FCC-hh hadron collider will give access to rare but clean final states which are out of reach of the HL-LHC. One such process is the ZhZh production channel in the (ννˉ/+)γγ(\nu\bar{\nu} / \ell^{+}\ell^{-})\gamma\gamma final states. We study the sensitivity of this channel to the Oφq(1)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(1)}, Oφq(3)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(3)}, Oφu\mathcal{O}_{\varphi u}, and Oφd\mathcal{O}_{\varphi d} SMEFT operators, which parametrize deviations of the WW and ZZ couplings to quarks, or, equivalently, anomalous trilinear gauge couplings (aTGC). While our analysis shows that good sensitivity is only achievable for Oφq(3)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(3)}, we demonstrate that binning in the ZhZh rapidity has the potential to improve the reach on Oφq(1)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(1)}. Our estimated bounds are one order of magnitude better than projections at HL-LHC and is better than global fits at future lepton colliders. The sensitivity to Oφq(3)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(3)} is competitive with other channels that could probe the same operator at FCC-hh. Therefore, combining the different diboson channels sizeably improves the bound on Oφq(3)\mathcal{O}_{\varphi q}^{(3)}, reaching a precision of δg1z2×104|\delta g_{1z}| \lesssim 2 \times 10^{-4} on the deviations in the ZWWZWW interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2011.13941,
  title  = {Precision from the diphoton Zh channel at FCC-hh},
  author = {Fady Bishara and Stefania De Curtis and Luigi Delle Rose and Philipp Englert and Christophe Grojean and Marc Montull and Giuliano Panico and Alejo N. Rossia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13941},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

32 pages, 6 figures, 9 tables. v2: a few small clarifications added, results and discussion unchanged, matches version published in JHEP