Probing Higgs self-interactions in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential of a future 100 TeV collider to measure Higgs self-interactions through triple-Higgs production, analyzing different decay signatures and detector performance impacts.

Contribution

It provides a detailed phenomenological analysis of Higgs self-couplings at a future collider, considering various experimental conditions and detector capabilities.

Findings

Sensitivity to Higgs cubic and quartic couplings depends on detector performance.

Luminosity requirements for measuring Higgs potential are estimated.

Different decay channels offer complementary insights into Higgs self-interactions.

Abstract

We present a phenomenological study of triple-Higgs production in which we estimate the prospects for measuring the form of the Higgs potential at future circular collider projects. We analyze proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV and focus on two different signatures in which the final state is made of four b-jets and either a pair of photons or a pair of tau leptons. We study the resulting sensitivity on the Higgs cubic and quartic self-interactions and investigate how it depends on the b-tagging, tau-tagging and photon resolution performances of detectors that could be designed for these future machines. We then discuss possible luminosity goals for future 100 TeV collider projects that would allow for a measurement of the Higgs potential and its possible departures from the Standard Model expectation.