Higgs-muon interactions at a multi-TeV muon collider

Oct 9, 2024
6 pages
Published in:
  • PoS ICHEP2024 (2025) 092,
  • PoS ICHEP2024 (2024) 092
Contribution to:
  • Published: Dec 17, 2024
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Report number:
  • DESY-24-150,
  • PITT-PACC-2410,
  • SI-HEP-2024-22,
  • IRMP-CP3-24-29, MSUHEP-24-017,
  • COMETA-2024-25,
  • IRMP-CP3-24-29,
  • MSUHEP-24-017, COMETA-2024-25

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Abstract: (SISSA)
We establish a simple yet general parameterization of Higgs-muon interactions within the effective field theory frameworks, including both the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We investigate the potential of a muon collider, operating at center-of-mass energies of 3 and 10 TeV, to probe Higgs-muon interactions. All possible processes involving the direct production of multiple electroweak bosons (WW, ZZ, and HH) with up to five final-state particles are considered. Our findings indicate that a muon collider can achieve greater sensitivity than the high-luminosity LHC, especially considering the independence of the Higgs decay branching fraction to muons. Notably, a 10 TeV muon collider offers exceptional sensitivity to muon-Higgs interactions, surpassing the 3 TeV option. In particular, searches based on multi-Higgs production prove highly effective for probing these couplings.
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  • 6 pages, 4 figures