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Anomalous production of massive gauge boson pairs at muon colliders

Brad Abbott1, Aram Apyan2,*, Bianca Azartash-Namin1, Veena Balakrishnan1, Jeffrey Berryhill3, Shih-Chieh Hsu4, Sergo Jindariani3, Mayuri Prabhakar Kawale1, Elham E. Khoda4 et al.

Ryan Parsons1, Alexander Schuy4, Michael Strauss1, John Stupak1, and Connor Waits1

  • 1Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
  • 3Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

  • *arapyan@brandeis.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 108, 093009 – Published 21 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.093009

Abstract

The prospects of searches for anomalous production of hadronically decaying weak boson pairs at proposed high-energy muon colliders are reported. Muon-muon collision events are simulated at s=6, 10, and 30 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4, 10, and 10  ab−1, respectively. Simulated μμ→WW+νν/μμ events are used to set expected constraints on the structure of quartic vector boson interactions in the framework of a dimension-8 effective field theory. Similarly, μμ→WW/ZZ+νν events are used to report constraints on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for vector boson fusion production of a heavy neutral Higgs boson decaying to weak boson pairs. These results are interpreted in the context of the Georgi-Machacek model.

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Phys. Rev. D 108, 093009– Published 21 November, 2023
  • Received 14 August 2023
  • Accepted 30 October 2023
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