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Probing anomalous $γγγZ$ couplings through $γZ$ production in $γγ$ collisions at the CLIC

S. C. İnan, A. V. Kisselev

arXiv, 2021

Abstract

We have estimated the sensitivity to the anomalous couplings of the $γγγZ$ vertex in the $γγ\rightarrowγZ$ scattering of the Compton backscattered photons at the CLIC. Both polarized and unpolarized collisions at the $e^+e^-$ energies 1500 GeV and 3000 GeV are addressed, and anomalous contributions to helicity amplitudes are derived. The differential and total cross sections are calculated. We have obtained 95\% C.L. exclusion limits on the anomalous quartic gauge couplings (QGCs). They are compared with corresponding bounds derived for the $γγγZ$ couplings via $γZ$ production at the LHC. The constraints on the anomalous QGCs are one to two orders of magnitude more stringent that at the HL-LHC. The partial-wave unitarity constraints on the anomalous couplings are examined. It is shown that the unitarity is not violated in the region of the anomalous QGCs studied in the paper.

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