Universal and Non Universal New Physics Effects in a General Four-fermion Process: a Z-peak Subtracted Approach

We calculate, using a Z-peak subtracted representation of four-fermion processes previously illustrated for the case of electron-positron annihilation into charged lepton-antilepton, the corresponding expressions of the new physics contributions for the case of final quark-antiquark states, allowing the possibility of both universal and non universal effects. We show that, in each case, the main result obtained for the final lepton channel can be generalized, so that every experimentally measurable quantity can be expressed in terms of input parameters \underline{measured} on Z resonance, of $\alpha(0)$ and of a small number of subtracted one loop expressions. Some examples of models are considered for several c.m. energy values, showing that remarkable simplifications are often introduced by our approach. In particular, for the case of a dimension-six lagrangian with anomalous gauge couplings, the same reduced number of parameters that would affect the observables of final leptonic states are essentially retained when one moves to final hadronic states. This leads to great simplifications in the elaboration of constraints and, as a gratifying byproduct, to the possibility of making the signal from these models clearly distinguishable from those from other (both universal and non universal) competitors.Comment: 21 pages + 3 figures in ps file, corrected version. (e-mail [email protected]

Higgs boson form factor effects in ttˉt\bar t production by W−W+W^-W^+ and ZZZZ fusion

We study the fusion processes $W^-W^+\to t\bar t$ and $ZZ\to t\bar t$ observable at a future $e^-e^+$ collider and we discuss their sensitivity to an $Htt$ form factor which may be due to compositeness, in particular when the $H$ and the top quark have common constituents. We make an amplitude analysis and illustrate which helicity amplitudes and cross sections for specific final $t\bar t$ polarizations are especially sensitive to this form factor.Comment: 24 pages, 37 figures, version including changes suggested by the Physical Review D publication tea

Specific supersimple properties of e−e+→γHe^-e^+\to \gamma H at high energy

We study the process $e^-e^+\to \gamma H$, where $H$ represents $H_{SM}$, $h^0$ or $H^0$, which occurs at the one loop level in the standard model (SM) or in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). We establish supersimple (sim) high energy expressions for all helicity amplitudes of this process, and we identify their level of accuracy for describing the various polarized and unpolarized observables, and for distinguishing SM from MSSM or another beyond the standard model (BSM). We pay a special attention to transverse electron-positron polarizations and azimuthal dependencies induced by the imaginary parts of the amplitudes, which are relatively important in this process.Comment: 33 pages, 66 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev.

A supersimple analysis of e−e+→ttˉe^-e^+\to t \bar t at high energy

According to supersimplicity in MSSM, a renormalization scheme (SRS) may be defined for any high energy 2-to-2 process, to the 1loop EW order; where the helicity conserving (HC) amplitudes, are expressed as a linear combination of just three universal logarithm-involving forms. All other helicity amplitudes vanish asymptotically. Including to these SRS amplitudes the corresponding counter terms, the "supersimple" expressions for the high energy HC amplitudes, renormalized on-shell, are obtained. Previously, this property was noted for a large number of processes that do not involve Yukawa interactions or renormalization group corrections. Here we extend it to $e^-e^+\to t \bar t$, which does involve large Yukawa and renormalization group contributions. We show that the resulting "supersimple" expressions may provide an accurate description, even at energies comparable to the SUSY scale. Such descriptions clearly identify the origin of the important SUSY effects, and they may be used for quickly constraining physics contributions, beyond MSSM.Comment: 26 pages, 15 figures. Paper appeared in Phys. Rev. D. The Journal where Reference 20 has appeared has been adde

The Higgs boson structure functions as signposts of new physics

We show that the Higgs boson structure functions observable in the inclusive process $e^-e^+ \to H + {\rm "anything"}$ may reveal the presence of anomalous contributions corresponding to several types of new physics partners, Higgs boson compositeness or invisible (dark) matter. This could be done without making a difficult or even an impossible experimental analysis of the contents of the "anything". We give illustrations showing how the shapes of the various structure functions containing such typical new contributions may differ from the standard prediction and allow their identification.Comment: 19 pages, 36 figures, version accepted in Phys. Rev.

Test of the triple Higgs boson form factor in μ−μ+→HH\mu^-\mu^+\to HH

We study the sensitivity of the process $\mu^-\mu^+\to HH$ to the $q^2$-dependence of the $HHH$ form factor, which can reflect the Higgs boson structure, especially in the case of compositeness. We compute the Born and 1 loop SM contribution to this process. We then show how the $\mu^-\mu^+\to HH$ polarized and unpolarized cross sections are modified by the presence of various types of anomalous contributions to the $HHH$ form factor, in particular Higgs constituents in the case of compositeness.Comment: 24 pages, 22 figures, Version to appear to Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.0410

Signals for Neutralino Box Effects at LEP2

We have computed the contribution to the observables of the final two fermion channel at LEP2, at the limiting energy $\sqrt{q^2}=200 GeV$, coming from boxes with two neutralinos of purely gaugino type, of mass $M=100 GeV$. We find a potentially visible effect only for the muon channel, in the cross section and, to a lesser extent, in the forward-backward asymmetry. Analogous effects coming from the chargino box are also briefly discussed.Comment: 10 pages and 2 figures. e-mail: [email protected]