Probe of axion-like particles in vector boson scattering at a muon collider

2022/07/07 by S. C. İnan, İnan, S. C., A. V. Kisselev +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.03325

Abstract

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the μ⁺ μ^- energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are addressed. The differential cross sections versus the invariant mass of the final photons and total cross section versus minimal diphoton invariant mass are presented. We have derived the exclusion regions for the ALP-gauge boson coupling. The obtained bounds are much stronger than the current experimental bounds in the ALP mass region 10 GeV -- 10 TeV. The partial-wave unitarity constraints on the ALP-gauge boson coupling are estimated. We have shown that the unitarity is not violated in the region of the ALP coupling studied in the present paper.

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