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We consider the search for the Higgs boson at a high-luminosity Fermilab Tevatron, an upgraded Tevatron of energy 3.5 TeV, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider, via $WH/ZH$ production followed by H -> bb~ and leptonic decay of the weak vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Stange , W. Marciano , S. Willenbrock

It has long been recognized that the scattering of electroweak particles at very high energies is dominated by vector boson fusion, which probes the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and offers a unique window into the ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Tao Han , Da Liu , Ian Low , Xing Wang

In this work, we examine the process at the LHC in which a Higgs boson is produced in association with a t t-bar pair and subsequently decays to a pair of muons. We show that the statistical significance for the discovery of a light,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Shufang Su , Brooks Thomas

We show that bottom-strange production at a high-energy muon collider, $\mu^+ \mu^- \to b s$, is a sensitive probe of new physics. We consider the full set of four-fermion contact interactions that contribute to this process at dimension 6,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Sri Aditya Gadam , Stefano Profumo

We present predictions for the inclusive cross section for Higgs boson production by gluon--gluon fusion in proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV. Our calculation is accurate up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD perturbation theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

As the planning stages for a high energy muon collider enter a more concrete era, an important question arises as to what new physics could be uncovered. A TeV-scale muon collider is also a vector boson fusion (VBF) factory with a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-20 Tsz Hong Kwok , Lingfeng Li , Tao Liu , Ariel Rock

The rate for Higgs (H) bosons production in association with either one (tH) or two ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$H) top quarks is measured in final states containing multiple electrons, muons, or tau leptons decaying to hadrons and a neutrino, using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-04 CMS Collaboration

We study the possibility to detect heavy physics effects in the interactions of Higgs bosons and the top quark at future colliders using the effective Lagrangian approach. The modification of the interactions may enhance the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 J. L. Diaz-Cruz , M. A. Perez , J. J. Toscano

In this work we study the matching between the two most popular effective field theories for beyond standard model Higgs physics, SMEFT and HEFT. To perform this matching we follow the approach of identifying the corresponding scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 D. Domenech , M. Herrero , R. A. Morales , A. Salas-Bernárdez

We investigate Higgs boson pair production at hadron colliders for Higgs boson masses m_H\leq 140 GeV and rare decay of one of the two Higgs bosons. While in the Standard Model the number of events is quite low at the LHC, a first, albeit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 U. Baur , T. Plehn , D. Rainwater

The CMS detector at the LHC has recorded events from proton-proton collisions, with muon momenta reaching up to 1.8 TeV in the collected dimuon samples. These high-momentum muons allow direct access to new regimes in physics beyond the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-04 CMS Collaboration

We study Higgs boson production at $\mu^+ \mu^+$ colliders at high energy. Since both initial-state particles are positively charged, there is no $W$ boson fusion at the leading order, as it requires a $W^+ W^-$ pair. However, we find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Yu Hamada , Ryuichiro Kitano , Ryutaro Matsudo , Shohei Okawa , Ryoto Takai , Hiromasa Takaura , Lukas Treuer

We explore the potential of a future e^+ e^- collider in the 0.5 TeV center-of-mass energy range to detect intermediate or heavy Higgs bosons in the Standard Model. We first briefly assess the production cross sections and update the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , Kingman Cheung , B. A. Kniehl , R. J. N. Phillips

At the LHC, top quarks can be produced singly with a sizeable rate via electroweak interactions. This process probes a limited set of top-quark electroweak couplings, i.e. , the same entering the top-quark decay, yet at higher scales and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Celine Degrande , Fabio Maltoni , Ken Mimasu , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

The Top Yukawa coupling profoundly influences several core mysteries linked to the electroweak scale and the Higgs boson. We study the feasibility of measuring the Top Yukawa coupling at high-energy muon colliders by examining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-05 Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Ishmam Mahbub , Lian-Tao Wang

Precise determinations of the masses of the $W$ boson and of the top quark could stringently test the radiative structure of the Standard Model (SM) or provide evidence for new physics. We analyze the excellent prospects at a muon collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Berger

The future muon collider can play as an ideal machine to search for new physics at high energies. In this work, we study the search potential of the heavy Higgs triplet in the Type II Seesaw mechanism at muon colliders with high collision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Tong Li , Chang-Yuan Yao , Man Yuan

The direct s-channel coupling to Higgs bosons is 40000 times greater for muons than electrons; the coupling goes as mass squared. High precision scanning of the lighter $h^0$ and the higher mass $H^0$ and $A^0$ is thus possible with a muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Godang , S. Bracker , M. Cavaglia , L. Cremaldi , D. Summers , D. Cline

The ultra-cold muon technology developed for the muon $g-2$ experiment at J-PARC provides a low emittance $\mu^+$ beam which can be accelerated and used for realistic collider experiments. We consider the possibility of new collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Yu Hamada , Ryuichiro Kitano , Ryutaro Matsudo , Hiromasa Takaura , Mitsuhiro Yoshida

We propose the development of a novel muon-proton and muon-nucleus collider facility at the TeV scale that is capable of performing precision deep inelastic scattering measurements in new regimes and providing a rich program in nuclear and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-20 Darin Acosta , Emanuela Barberis , Nicholas Hurley , Wei Li , Osvaldo Miguel Colin , Yijie Wang , Darien Wood , Xunwu Zuo