Study of the $tH$ production at 14TeV and 100TeV $pp$ colliders

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to detect flavor-changing neutral current interactions involving the top quark and Higgs boson at future 14TeV and 100TeV proton-proton colliders, focusing on single top plus Higgs production and its decay channels.

Contribution

It introduces a study of the sensitivity of future colliders to FCNC interactions in top-Higgs production, highlighting the ability to distinguish between different Yukawa couplings.

Findings

Identifies a sensitive region for lepton separation from Higgs decay ($0.4 extless riangle R extless1.4$).

Demonstrates collider sensitivity to FCNC interactions at 14TeV and 100TeV.

Shows potential to differentiate between $y_{tu}$ and $y_{tc}$ couplings.

Abstract

The flavor-changing neutral current interactions in the standard model are suppressed seriously and such interactions can be used to search the new physics beyond SM. The top quark and Higgs bosons are heavier than the other particles in SM, we can expect the new physics plays a more important role in their interactions. In this work, we study the flavor-changing neutral current interactions between the top quark $\bar{t}q H$ through the production of the single top associated with a Higgs boson on 14TeV and 100TeV $pp$ colliders. We consider the leptonic decay channels of Higgs and study the signal. We find a sensitive region $0.4\leq\Delta R\leq1.4$ for the leptons from Higgs bosons and $\Delta R\geq1.8$ between the jets from top quark and leptons. We investigate the detective abilities of the hadron colliders for the processes. Although this process seems not comparable with $pp\to t\bar{t}$ with $t\to H q$ decay, it is still attractive since this process can be used to distinguish the $y_{tu}$ and $y_{tc}$.