2017/02/28 by Hamzeh Khanpour, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.95.055026
published as Phys. Rev. D 95, 055026 (2017) · 13 pages, 6 figures and 3 Tables
arxiv created 2017/03/28 · arxiv updated 2017/03/29
We probe the dimension-six operators contributing to Higgs production in association with a Z boson at the future high-luminosity electron-positron colliders. Potential constraints on dimension-six operators in the Higgs sector are determined by performing a shape analysis on the differential angular distribution of the Higgs and Z boson decay products. The analysis is performed at the center-of-mass energies of 350 and 500 GeV including a realistic detector simulation and the main sources of background processes. The 68% and 95% confidence level upper limits are obtained on the contributing anomalous couplings considering only the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of b-quarks and leptonic Z boson decay. Our results show that angular observables provide a great sensitivity to the anomalous couplings, in particular, at the high-luminosity regime.