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Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-09-04 v3

Abstract

Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear e+ee^+e^- or circular μ+μ\mu^+\mu^- accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this regime the impact of QED and of weak radiation, in both the initial and the final state, can become a leading effect. By employing a general framework presented in a companion paper - suitable for any flavour of colliding leptons - we improve next-to-leading order electroweak predictions by including higher-order contributions, which encompass, but are not limited to, vector-boson-fusion processes. We apply this approach to the study of ttˉt\bar{t} and W+WW^+W^- production at a muon collider operating at centre-of-mass energies up to 10 TeV. We show that such an approach, where both QED and weak contributions are included at fixed order, in addition to the all-order resummation of initial-state QED effects, can provide predictions for arbitrary observables in all of the phase space which are precise at the percent level.

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@article{arxiv.2506.10733,
  title  = {Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders},
  author = {Stefano Frixione and Fabio Maltoni and Davide Pagani and Marco Zaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10733},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

48 pages, 18 figures; version accepted for publication

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