# Searches for the Anomalous FCNC Top-Higgs Couplings with Polarized Electron Beam at the LHeC

## TL;DR

This study investigates the potential to detect anomalous flavor-changing neutral current top-Higgs couplings at the LHeC using polarized electron beams, employing advanced analysis methods to improve sensitivity over current limits.

## Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of top-Higgs FCNC couplings at the LHeC with polarized electron beams, comparing cut-based and multivariate methods to enhance detection sensitivity.

## Key findings

- Probing of Br(t→uh) down to 0.019% with MVA at high energies.
- Polarized electron beams improve the sensitivity limits.
- Comparison of analysis methods shows MVA outperforms cut-based analysis.

## Abstract

In this paper, we study the single top and Higgs associated production $\rm e^- p\rightarrow \nu_e \bar{t} \rightarrow \nu_e h \bar{q}(h\rightarrow b\bar{b})$ in the top-Higgs FCNC couplings at the LHeC with the electron beam energy of $E_{e}$ = 60 GeV and $E_{e}$ = 120 GeV, combination of a 7 TeV and 50 TeV proton beam. With the possibility of e-beam polarization ($p_{e}$ = 0, $\pm0.6$), we distinct the Cut-based method and the Multivariate Analysis (MVA) based method, and compare with the current experimental and theoretical limits. It is shown that the branching ratio Br $\rm(t\to uh)$ can be probed to 0.113 (0.093) $\%$, 0.071 (0.057) $\%$, 0.030 (0.022) $\%$ and 0.024 (0.019) $\%$ with the Cut-based (MVA-based) analysis at ($E_{p}$, $E_{e}$) = (7 TeV, 60 GeV), ($E_{p}$, $E_{e}$) = (7 TeV, 120 GeV), ($E_{p}$, $E_{e}$) = (50 TeV, 60 GeV) and ($E_{p}$, $E_{e}$) = (50 TeV, 120 GeV) beam energy and 1$\sigma$ level. With the possibility of e-beam polarization, the expected limits can be probed down to 0.090 (0.073) $\%$, 0.056 (0.045) $\%$, 0.024 (0.018) $\%$ and 0.019 (0.015) $\%$, respectively.