- Accepted Paper
High energy probes of Higgs boson self-coupling via boson fusion at future lepton colliders
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 6 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z2k9-mjbr
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 6 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z2k9-mjbr
We investigate the sensitivity to the Higgs self-coupling through boson fusion di-Higgs production at CLIC with a center-of-mass energy of ~TeV. We study the interplay between the Higgs self-coupling modifier () and Higgs-gauge boson coupling modifiers ( and ) within the framework. To enhance the separation between signal and background, we develop a graph neural network (GNN) based classifier that achieves a signal significance of at , substantially exceeding projected HL-LHC sensitivity. Our results demonstrate that high-energy lepton colliders, combined with graph-based machine learning, provide excellent sensitivity to the Higgs self-coupling and offer a powerful probe of new physics in the electroweak sector, potentially disentangling underlying SMEFT-like and HEFT-like structures.
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