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We investigate the sensitivity of a future 10 TeV muon collider to dimension-6 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), focusing on Higgs and top quark production processes. The analysis includes two-fermion and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Tisa Biswas , Anindya Datta , Barbara Mele

Forward muon detection at high-energy muon colliders is crucial for resolving the underlying electroweak process. Detecting these muons is challenging in current detector designs, limited by the shielding required to suppress the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Carlos Henrique de Lima

We investigate the sensitivity of current and future hadron-collider experiments to axion-like particles (ALPs) through associated diboson production, focusing on a linear effective field theory framework with bosonic ALP couplings. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Barbara Jäger , Ozan Semin

In this work, we explore the discovery potential of the Inert Doublet Model (IDM) via the vector boson fusion (VBF) channel at a muon collider with centre-of-mass energy of 10 TeV. The Inert Doublet Model is a two-Higgs-doublet model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Johannes Braathen , Martin Gabelmann , Tania Robens , Panagiotis Stylianou

We investigate the sensitivity of future high-energy muon colliders to heavy Majorana neutrinos, considering both opposite-sign ($\mu^+\mu^-$) and same-sign ($\mu^+\mu^+$) collision modes. We focus on $\mu^+\mu^-$ colliders operating at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Parham Dehghani , Mariana Frank , Benjamin Fuks

Motivated by the more and more abundant experimental data, we revisit the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) to electroweak gauge bosons across the ALP mass range from MeV to 100 GeV. The current and future experimental limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Jin Sun , Zhi-Peng Xing , Seokhoon Yun

Due to the inclination for forward gauge radiation, lepton colliders beyond a few TeV are effectively electroweak (EW) boson colliders, suggesting the treatment of EW bosons as constituents of high-energy leptons. In the context of a muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-27 Richard Ruiz , Antonio Costantini , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer

Heavy spin-one particles are well-motivated new physics candidates that can have their origin in weakly coupled extensions of the Standard Model gauge group or in strongly coupled Composite Higgs models. Due to the variety of production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Francesca Acanfora , Michael J. Baker , Timothy Martonhelyi , Andrea Thamm

A muon collider represents the ideal machine to reach very high center-of-mass energies and luminosities by colliding elementary particles. This is the result of the low level of beamstrahlung and synchrotron radiation compared to linear or…

A feasibility study is performed for searching vector-like leptons at a muon collider, in the context of the "4321 model", an ultraviolet-complete model with rich collider phenomenology together with potential to explain recent existing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Qilong Guo , Leyun Gao , Yajun Mao , Qiang Li

We study the capabilities of a muon collider, at 3 and 10 TeV center-of-mass energy, of probing the interactions of the Higgs boson with the muon. We consider all the possible processes involving the direct production of EW bosons ($W,Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Eugenia Celada , Tao Han , Wolfgang Kilian , Nils Kreher , Yang Ma , Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Jürgen Reuter , Tobias Striegl , Keping Xie

The vector boson fusion (VBF) event topology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allows efficient suppression of dijet backgrounds and is therefore a promising target for new physics searches. We consider dark matter models which interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 James Brooke , Matthew R. Buckley , Patrick Dunne , Bjoern Penning , John Tamanas , Miha Zgubic

In this work we investigate several phenomenological and technical aspects related to electroweak (EW) corrections at a high-energy muon collider, focusing on direct production processes (no VBF configurations). We study in detail the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Yang Ma , Davide Pagani , Marco Zaro

The proposal for a high-energy muon collider offers many opportunities in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The collider by construction is likely to be more sensitive to the muon-philic models, primarily motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Nivedita Ghosh , Santosh Kumar Rai , Tousik Samui

A search for a new pseudoscalar $a$-boson produced in events with a top-quark pair, where the $a$-boson decays into a pair of muons, is performed using $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-20 ATLAS Collaboration

We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) with leptons from their loop-level impact on the ALP couplings to electroweak (EW) gauge bosons via the signal process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma \gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Xiao-Chen Sun

The potential of muon colliders to address fundamental physics issues is explored, with emphasis on understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. The $s$-channel production of Higgs bosons, unique to a muon collider, along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Barger

In this work, we calculate the sensitivities on the gauge-boson couplings $g_{aZZ}$, $g_{aZ\gamma}$, and $g_{aWW}$ of an axion-like particle (ALP) that one can achieve at the LHC with $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV and integrated luminosities of 300…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kingman Cheung , Wanyon Hsiao , C. J. Ouseph , Chen Wang

Muon colliders offer special opportunities to discover and study new physics. With the high intensity source of muons at the front end, orders of magnitude improvements would be realized in searches for rare muon processes, in deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Barger

This study investigates the discovery potential of a singly produced vector-like top quark ($T$) at a future muon-proton collider with center-of-mass energies of 5.29, 6.48, and 9.16 TeV, using a model-independent effective Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Mudassar Hussain , Ijaz Ahmed , Tayyab Javaid , Haroon Saghir , Jamil Muhammad