Higgs Self-Coupling Measurement at a Linear Collider at 550 GeV

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential for measuring the Higgs self-coupling at a 550 GeV linear collider, using updated simulation techniques and analysis improvements to refine sensitivity estimates.

Contribution

It provides updated projections for Higgs self-coupling measurement at 550 GeV, incorporating improved simulation and analysis methods based on recent full and fast simulation studies.

Findings

Enhanced sensitivity estimates for Higgs self-coupling at 550 GeV.

Demonstrated the impact of improved flavour tagging and reconstruction.

Compared full and fast simulation results for detector performance.

Abstract

The Higgs mechanism is essential for the success of the Standard Model (SM) and can be experimentally verified with the determination of the Higgs self-coupling. As the simplest model of a Higgs potential, the SM provides a clear prediction of the Higgs self-coupling in terms of the Higgs boson mass and the vacuum expectation value. Any deviations would indicate physics beyond the SM and help guide extended Higgs models. At large enough centre-of-mass energies, double-Higgs production provides tree-level sensitivity to the trilinear Higgs self-coupling. At 550 GeV the leading production mode in $e^+e^-$ comes from di-Higgs strahlung with a small contribution from $WW$-fusion. The most up-to-date ILD projections are extrapolated based on a full simulation analysis from 2014 by incorporating expected improvements in flavour tagging and kinematic reconstruction for event selection, and are presented in this contribution together with the ongoing re-analysis using fast SGV (Simulation a Grande Vitesse) simulations of the ILD detector concept on a full SM background including the aforementioned state-of-the-art reconstruction and analysis tools.