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Probing CP Violation through Vector Boson Fusion at High-Energy Muon Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-02 v2

Abstract

We investigate CP-violating effects in electroweak interactions at future high-energy muon colliders within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. Focusing on four dimension-six CP-odd operators -- OW~,OHW~,OHW~B,OHB~ \mathcal{O}_{\widetilde{W}}, \mathcal{O}_{H\widetilde{W}}, \mathcal{O}_{H\widetilde{W}B}, \mathcal{O}_{H\widetilde{B}} -- we analyze vector boson fusion production of WW and Higgs bosons using CP-odd observables and their asymmetries. With detailed simulations including parton showering, hadronization, and detector effects, we derive exclusion sensitivities through a binned likelihood analysis. For example, at s=3\sqrt{s} = 3 TeV with 2 ab1^{-1}, the coefficient CW~C_{\widetilde{W}} can be constrained at the O(0.02)\mathcal{O}(0.02) level, improving to O(0.008)\mathcal{O}(0.008) at 10 TeV with 2 ab1^{-1}, and O(0.003)\mathcal{O}(0.003) with 10 ab1^{-1}. These results significantly surpass current LHC and projected ILC sensitivities, demonstrating the unique potential of high-energy muon colliders to provide direct and model-independent probes of CP violation in the electroweak sector.

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@article{arxiv.2510.23257,
  title  = {Probing CP Violation through Vector Boson Fusion at High-Energy Muon Colliders},
  author = {Qing-Hong Cao and Jian-Nan Ding and Yandong Liu and Jin-Long Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.23257},
  year   = {2026}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, 11 tables