Tera- stage at future colliders and light composite axionlike particles
G. Cacciapaglia (University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69001 Lyon, France, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), UMR5822, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France); A. Deandrea (University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69001 Lyon, France, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), UMR5822, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France); A. M. Iyer (University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69001 Lyon, France, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), UMR5822, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi-110016, India); K. Sridhar (School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Sarjapura, Bengaluru 562125, India)
The Tera- phase of future colliders, FCC-ee and CEPC, is a gold mine for exploring portal physics. We focus on axionlike particles (ALPs) that can be produced via decays with a monochromatic photon. As a template model, we consider composite Higgs models with a light pseudoscalar that couples through the Wess-Zumino-Witten term to the electroweak gauge bosons. For both photophilic and photophobic cases, we show that the Tera- can probe composite scales up to 100s of TeV, well beyond the capability of the LHC and current precision physics. Our results also apply to generic ALPs and, in particular, severely constrain models that explain the muon anomaly.