Measurement of the H to ZZ branching fraction at 350 GeV and 3 TeV CLIC

TL;DR

This study assesses the potential to measure the Higgs boson's decay into Z bosons at future CLIC energies, demonstrating achievable precision levels through detailed simulations of detector and background effects.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed simulation-based estimates of Higgs to ZZ branching fraction measurement at 350 GeV and 3 TeV CLIC energies.

Findings

20% relative uncertainty at 350 GeV

3.0% relative uncertainty at 3 TeV

uses detailed detector and background simulations

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the prospects for measuring the branching fraction of the Standard Model Higgs boson decay into a pair of $Z$ bosons at the future Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) at 350 GeV and 3 TeV centre-of-mass energies. Studies are performed using a detailed simulation of the detector for CLIC, taking into consideration all relevant physics and beam-induced background processes. It is shown that the product of the Higgs production cross-section and the branching fraction BR(${H\rightarrow\thinspace ZZ^\ast}$) can be measured with a relative statistical uncertainty of 20% (3.0%) at a centre-of-mass energy of 350 GeV (3 TeV) using semileptonic final states, assuming an integrated luminosity of 1 ab$^{-1}$ (5 ab$^{-1}$).