Higgs Boson Self-Coupling at High Energy $\gamma \gamma$ Collider

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to measure the Higgs boson self-coupling at future high-energy gamma-gamma colliders by analyzing double and triple Higgs production processes, providing sensitivity estimates and event predictions.

Contribution

It presents a detailed analysis of Higgs self-coupling measurement prospects at future gamma-gamma colliders, including cross section calculations and sensitivity regions for various energies and luminosities.

Findings

Number of t t̄ HH events is small but informative.

Sensitivity regions for the triple coupling are established.

Complementary method to other Higgs self-coupling measurements.

Abstract

We analyzed the double production and the triple self-coupling of the standard model Higgs boson at future $\gamma \gamma$ collider energies, with the reactions $\gamma\gamma \rightarrow f \bar f HH$ $(f=b, t)$. We evaluated the total cross section for $f\bar fHH$ and calculated the total number of events considering the complete set of Feynman diagrams at tree-level and for different values of the triple coupling $\kappa\lambda_{HHH}$. We have also analyzed the sensitivity for the considered reaction and we show the results as 95% C.L. regions in the $\kappa-M_H$ plane for different values of the center of mass energy and different levels of background. The numerical computation was done for the energies which are expected to be available at a possible Future Linear $\gamma\gamma$ Collider with a center-of-mass energy 500-3000 $GeV$ and luminosities of 1 and $5 ab^{-1}$. We found that the number of events for the process $\gamma\gamma \rightarrow t \bar t HH$, taking into account the decay products of both $t$ and $H$, is small but enough to obtain information on the triple Higgs boson self-coupling in a independent way, complementing other studies on the triple vertex.