Muon Collider Sensitivity to Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings

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Abstract

A muon collider has one primary advantage over the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) regarding sensitivity to anomalous quartic gauge couplings (aQGCs); it effectively serves as a gauge boson collider due to collinear divergences which serves to increase the rate of these rare interactions. We study the sensitivity of a muon collider to dimension-8 operators affecting the WWZγ, WWZZ, and WWγγ vertices. The μ+ μ- W+ W- final state in the vector boson scattering topology is analyzed and expected limits on the energy of new physics are set for 6, 10, and 30 TeV center of mass colliding energies. Expected limits set at all center of mass points are stronger than corresponding limits observed at the LHC by the CMS collaboration at 13 TeV.

*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0009956.

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Publication: Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings at a muon collider ArXiv:2203.08135

Presenters

  • CONNOR H WAITS

    • University of Oklahoma

Authors

  • CONNOR H WAITS

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Brad Abbott

    • Univ of Oklahoma

  • Aram Apyan

    • Brandeis University

  • Bianca Azartash-Namin

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Veena Balakrishnan

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Jeffrey W Berryhill

    • Fermilab

  • Shih-Chieh Hsu

    • University of Washington

  • Sergo Jindariani

    • Fermilab

  • Mayuri Kawale

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Elham E Khoda

    • University of Washington

  • Ryan Parson

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Alexander Schuy

    • University of Washington

  • Michael G Strauss

    • Univ of Oklahoma

  • John Stupak

    • University of Oklahoma