SAIP2026

Probing Anomalous Higgs Couplings in $\mu^{+}p$ Collisions

7 Jul 2026, 11:40

20m

Lecture Hall GH3 (University of the Western Cape)

Oral Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics -2

Speaker

Edward Nkadimeng (University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

We investigate the sensitivity to anomalous Higgs couplings through di-Higgs production at the proposed Large Hadron Muon Collider (LH$\mu$C), which collides 500~GeV (1~TeV) muons with 7~TeV protons at center-of-mass energies of $\sqrt{s} \approx 3.74$ (5.3)~TeV. Using the charged-current process $\mu^{+}p \rightarrow hhj\nu_{\mu}$, we probe the sensitivity of the Standard Model Higgs self-coupling as well as non-standard $hhh$, $hWW$, and $hhWW$ couplings via the azimuthal angle correlation between the missing transverse energy and the forward jet. Exclusion limits on these couplings are estimated at the $95\%$ confidence level as a function of integrated luminosity for both muon beam energy configurations.

Presentation materials

Di_Higgs_at_the_LHC (9).pdf