Measuring the CP properties of the Higgs sector at electron-positron colliders

TL;DR

This paper explores how future electron-positron colliders can precisely measure the CP properties of the Higgs sector, crucial for understanding matter-antimatter asymmetry, through detailed simulations of specific Higgs production processes.

Contribution

It presents two detailed simulation studies on measuring Higgs CP properties at upcoming colliders, including a novel analysis of the $h o au au$ decay channel and ongoing work on $ZZ$-fusion processes.

Findings

CP mixing in $h o au au$ can be measured to 75 mrad precision.

Progress on $ZZ$-fusion process analysis at 1.4 TeV CLIC and 1 TeV ILC.

Potential to significantly constrain Higgs CP violation at future colliders.

Abstract

The violation of CP symmetry at the electro-weak scale is one of the essential ingredients for electro-weak baryogenesis. It is therefore of great interest to map the CP properties of the Higgs sector in as much detail as possible. A linear electron-positron Higgs factory collider will provide many opportunities to probe the CP nature of the Higgs sector, thanks to access to several Higgs production processes at a wide range of centre-of-mass energies. In this paper we report on two studies based on full simulation of detector response and realistic reconstruction algorithms: 1) a study of $h \to \tau \tau$ at ILC-250, in which mixing of CP eigenstates can be measured to a precision of 75~mrad; and 2) the current status of an ongoing study of the $ZZ$--fusion process at 1.4 TeV CLIC and 1 TeV ILC, for which we expect to achieve concrete results during the Snowmass study period.