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Light-by-Light Scattering at Future Colliders

arXiv:2203.17111 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10565-w

Abstract

We study the sensitivity of possible CLIC and FCC-ee measurements of light-by-light scattering to old and new physics, including the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian in the Standard Model with possible contributions from loops of additional charged particles or magnetic monopoles, the Born-Infeld extension of QED, and effective dimension-8 operators involving four electromagnetic field strengths as could appear in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. We find that FCC-ee measurements at 365 GeV and CLIC measurements at 350 GeV would be sensitive to new physics scales of half a TeV in the dimension-8 operator coefficients, and that CLIC measurements at 1.4 TeV or 3 TeV would be sensitive to new physics scales { TeV or 5 TeV} at 95\% CL, corresponding to probing loops of new particles with masses up to TeV {for large charges and/or multiple species}. Within Born-Infeld theory, the CL sensitivities would range from GeV to 1.3 or 2.8 TeV for the high-energy CLIC options. Measurements of light-by-light scattering would not exclude monopole production at FCC-hh, except in the context of Born-Infeld theory.

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