Probing the Anomalous Couplings via Exclusive Boson Decay
Hongxin Dong (Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China); Peng Sun (Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China); Bin Yan (Theoretical Division, Group T-2, MS B283, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA)
; C.P. Yuan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)
We propose to utilize the exclusive Z-boson rare decays to constrain the couplings at the HL-LHC and 100 TeV proton-proton collider. We demonstrate that the event yield of the proposed processes is sensitive to the axial-vector component of the coupling and can provide complementary information to the jet-charge weighted single-spin asymmetry measurement at the EIC and the production rate measurement at the LHC. By applying the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the partial decay width of to the NLO accuracy in strong interaction, which is found to agree with those obtained from the light-cone distribution amplitude approach. We show that the HL-LHC can break the degeneracy of the couplings, as implied by the precision electroweak data at LEP and SLC, if the signal efficiency can be improved by a factor of 1.7 from the present ATLAS analysis at the 13 TeV LHC with an integrated luminosity of .