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High energy probes of Higgs boson self-coupling via W boson fusion at future lepton colliders

Amir Subba, Hrishikesh Deka, Subhaditya Bhattacharya, and Abhik Sarkar

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 6 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z2k9-mjbr

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity to the Higgs self-coupling through W boson fusion di-Higgs production at CLIC with a center-of-mass energy of s=3~TeV. We study the interplay between the Higgs self-coupling modifier (κλ) and Higgs-gauge boson coupling modifiers (κV and κ2V) within the κ framework. To enhance the separation between signal and background, we develop a graph neural network (GNN) based classifier that achieves a signal significance of 𝒵≈20σ at 5ab−1, 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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