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We examine a method of studying the Z polarization in $H\to ZZ \to \ell^+ \ell^- \nu \bar{\nu}$ in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Included are the dominant contributions: gluon fusion production of the Higgs…
This paper presents a combined analysis of the potential of a future electron-positron collider to constrain the Higgs, top and electro-weak (EW) sectors of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The leading contributions of…
We investigate what can be learned at a linear collider about the sector of electroweak symmetry breaking from a precise measurement of the Higgs boson production cross section through the process e+e- -> hZ. We focus on deviations from the…
The possibility of observing CP-violation in the process $\gamma \gamma \to H$ is investigated for masses of the Higgs particle in the interval $M_z \lsim m_H \lsim 2 m_t$, using a 0.5TeV tunable linear $e^{+} e^{-}$ collider through laser…
In this paper, the production of the charged Higgs pair associated with the $Z^0$ boson is analyzed in the minimal extension of the standard model the so-called two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM). The process $e^+e^- \rightarrow H^+H^-Z^0$ is…
A high-energy photon polarimeter for astrophysics studies in the energy range from 10 MeV to 800 MeV is considered. The proposed concept uses a stack of silicon micro-strip detectors where they play the roles of both a converter and a…
The sensitivity of various angular and energy distributions to the CP of a Higgs candidate are considered for the process $e^-e^- -> e^-e^-h$, where h is either a scalar or a pseudoscalar Higgs. This process may differ from the…
This paper is an updated version of the lectures given at the XXIX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics in Sitges, Barcelona (February 2000). The measurements perforned at LEP and SLC have substantially improved the precision of the…
The M{\o}ller polarimeter in Hall A at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA, has provided reliable measurements of electron beam polarization for the past two decades reaching the typically required $\pm$1\% level of absolute uncertainty.…
We demonstrate that a measurement of the Bjorken process $e^+e^-, \mu^+\mu^-\to ZH$ in the threshold region can yield a precise determination of the Higgs boson mass. With an integrated luminosity of $100 fb^{-1}$, it is possible to measure…
The precision of the yield measurement of the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of $Z$ bosons process at the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is evaluated. Including the recoil $Z$ boson associated with the Higgs production…
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is an option for a future e+e- collider operating at centre-of-mass energies up to 3 TeV, providing sensitivity to a wide range of new physics phenomena and precision physics measurements at the energy…
We investigate selectron pair production and decay in e-e- scattering and e+e- annihilation with polarized beams taking into account neutralino mixing as well as ISR and beamstrahlung corrections. One of the main advantages of having both…
We study the potential of the next-generation $e^+ e^-$ linear colliders with longitudinally polarized beams, to restrict the values of the anomalous trilinear couplings $WW\gamma$ and $WWZ$ from the measurement of the process $e^+ e^-\to…
Since 2012, a BNL-MIT collaboration has worked to develop a polarized $^3$He ion source for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) using the existing Electron Beam Ionization Source (EBIS). $^3$He atoms are polarized using optical…
Using data samples collected by the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII storage ring, we measure the $e^+e^- \to K_{S}^{0}K^{\pm}\pi^{\mp}$ Born cross sections at center-of-mass energies between 3.8 and 4.6\,GeV, corresponding to a…
The longitudinal polarisation states of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons arise during electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking as the vector bosons absorb the Higgs boson's massless degrees of freedom. Consequently, these states are intrinsically linked to…
The discrepancy between polarized and unpolarized measurements of the proton's electromagnetic form factors is striking, and suggests that two-photon exchange (TPE) may be playing a larger role in elastic electron-proton scattering than is…
We describe a study of high-energy Compton beam polarimeters for the future e+e- linear collider machine TESLA. A segment of the beam delivery system has been identified, which is aligned with the e+e- collision axis and which has a…
We systematically study potential effects of Beyond the Standard Model physics in the $e^+ e^- \rightarrow Z H$ process. To this end, we include all relevant dimension-6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory operators and work to…