Sensitivity of polarizations and spin correlations of Z boson to anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings at lepton collider with polarized beams (2311.12170v2)

Abstract: We investigate the effects of anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings in $ZZ$ and $Z\gamma$ production processes, followed by the leptonic decay of the $Z$ boson, at a lepton collider with center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=250$~GeV and polarized beams. We use an effective Lagrangian formalism to parameterize the anomalous couplings in terms of dimension-8 operators $c_{\widetilde{B}W}$, $c_{BW}$, $c_{WW}$, and $c_{BB}$, and study the sensitivity of observables such as cross~section, polarization, and spin correlation as functions of these couplings. We perform a Bayesian statistical analysis using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to determine simultaneous limits on the anomalous couplings, taking into account various luminosities $\mathcal{L} \in {0.1~\text{ab}^{-1}, 0.3~\text{ab}^{-1}, 1~\text{ab}^{-1}, 3~\text{ab}^{-1}, 10~\text{ab}^{-1}}$ and systematic uncertainties. We find that polarization and spin correlation observables significantly enhance the sensitivity to anomalous couplings, providing stringent constraints on these couplings.