Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders

Abstract Collinear emission of W bosons off a high-energy muon induces a large muon-neutrino component among the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of a muon. In this paper we study the phenomenology related to the ν μ PDF at future high-energy muon colliders. We examine total rates and differenti...

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Main Authors: Rodolfo Capdevilla, Francesco Garosi, David Marzocca, Bernd Stechauner
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Published: SpringerOpen 2025-04-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)168
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Francesco Garosi
David Marzocca
Bernd Stechauner
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description Abstract Collinear emission of W bosons off a high-energy muon induces a large muon-neutrino component among the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of a muon. In this paper we study the phenomenology related to the ν μ PDF at future high-energy muon colliders. We examine total rates and differential distributions of the e ν ¯ e $$ e{\overline{\nu}}_e $$ and Wγ production processes, which receive a large, and often dominant, contribution from this PDF, allowing for a detailed experimental study. As a demonstration of the impact the ν μ PDF could have for searches of new physics, we study the charged-current pair production of a couple of heavy states, components of a SU(2) L doublet. In both e ν ¯ e $$ e{\overline{\nu}}_e $$ production and charged-current pair production of heavy states, we compare results obtained using PDFs with those of a fixed-order simulation.
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spelling doaj-art-e9de7092b8384e6a801ef70b063a42892025-08-20T01:49:37ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-04-012025412210.1007/JHEP04(2025)168Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon collidersRodolfo Capdevilla0Francesco Garosi1David Marzocca2Bernd Stechauner3Particle Theory Department, Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryMax-Planck-Institute für PhysikINFN, Sezione di Trieste, SISSACERNAbstract Collinear emission of W bosons off a high-energy muon induces a large muon-neutrino component among the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of a muon. In this paper we study the phenomenology related to the ν μ PDF at future high-energy muon colliders. We examine total rates and differential distributions of the e ν ¯ e $$ e{\overline{\nu}}_e $$ and Wγ production processes, which receive a large, and often dominant, contribution from this PDF, allowing for a detailed experimental study. As a demonstration of the impact the ν μ PDF could have for searches of new physics, we study the charged-current pair production of a couple of heavy states, components of a SU(2) L doublet. In both e ν ¯ e $$ e{\overline{\nu}}_e $$ production and charged-current pair production of heavy states, we compare results obtained using PDFs with those of a fixed-order simulation.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)168Electroweak Precision PhysicsHigher Order Electroweak Calculations
spellingShingle Rodolfo Capdevilla
Francesco Garosi
David Marzocca
Bernd Stechauner
Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
Journal of High Energy Physics
Electroweak Precision Physics
Higher Order Electroweak Calculations
title Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
title_full Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
title_fullStr Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
title_full_unstemmed Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
title_short Testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
title_sort testing the neutrino content of the muon at muon colliders
topic Electroweak Precision Physics
Higher Order Electroweak Calculations
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)168
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