Physics Opportunities for Vector-Boson Scattering at a Future 100 TeV Hadron Collider

Abstract

Vector-boson scattering (VBS) processes provide particularly promising means for probing the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and to search for new physics in the weak sector. In the environment of a future proton-proton collider operating at a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV, unprecedented opportunities arise for the investigation of this important class of reactions. We highlight the prominent features of VBS processes in this energy regime and discuss how the VBS signal can be isolated in the presence of a priori large QCD backgrounds. We find excellent opportunities for the analysis of VBS reactions in a kinematic range that is inaccessible to present colliders.

26 pages, 14 figures; matches version published by Phys. Rev. D

References in corpus (17)

• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
• LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era
• Parton distributions in the LHC era: MMHT 2014 PDFs
• VBFNLO: A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons
• Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order
• Helac-Phegas: a generator for all parton level processes
• p p -> j j e+/- mu+/- nu nu and j j e+/- mu-/+ nu nu at O(α_{em}^6) and O(α_{em}^4 α_s^2) for the Study of the Quartic Electroweak Gauge Boson Vertex at LHC
• Polarizing the Dipoles
• Evidence for Electroweak Production of $W^{\pm }{W}^{\pm }jj$ in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector
• Study of vector boson scattering and search for new physics in events with two same-sign leptons and two jets
• Off-shell Top Quarks with One Jet at the LHC: A comprehensive analysis at NLO QCD
• Kaleu: a general-purpose parton-level phase space generator
• Observing Strongly Interacting Vector Boson Systems at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Vector-Boson Fusion and Vector-Boson Scattering
• Weak Boson Fusion at 100 TeV
• Parton-shower effects on Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion in association with three jets

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Higgs Physics: It ain't over till it's over
• New features in the JHU generator framework: constraining Higgs boson properties from on-shell and off-shell production
• Vector-Boson Scattering at the LHC: unravelling the Electroweak sector
• QCD effects in electroweak $WZjj$ production at current and future hadron colliders
• Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings via Electroweak Production of $\gamma \gamma jj$ at Future Proton-Proton Colliders