Perspectives for studies of the HET physics at the muon-hadron collider at CERN (17'+3')

7 May 2026, 11:00
20m
Sala SATURNO B, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala SATURNO B, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG3 Electroweak Physics, top, Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model WG3 Electro-weak physics/higgs/top and BSM

Speaker

Dr Hamzeh Khanpour (AGH University of Kraków)

Description

We will present the Higgs-Electroweak-Top (HET) physics potential of the proposed LH$\mu$C, an anti-muon-hadron collider at CERN [1,2]. By combining multi-TeV centre-of-mass energy with high luminosity, LH$\mu$C offers excellent conditions for exploring the HET physics. In the talk, we will report benchmark inclusive cross sections for Higgs production and for key top-quark processes, and highlight the resulting opportunities for precision Higgs-coupling studies and a broad electroweak programme. This will also include a discussion of the potential for studying the high energy photon-photon interactions at the LH$\mu$C. Finally, we will shortly overview the impact of a muon-hadron collider at the FCC-hh for the HET research [3].

References:
[1] D. Akturk et al., "μLHC: Antimuon ring and HL-LHC based μ+p collider", arXiv:2506.15445.
[2] Help4CERN Collaboration, "White Paper on High Energy, High Luminosity Lepton-Hadron Colliders at CERN", in preparation.
[3] K. Cheung and Z. S. Wang, "Physics potential of a muon-proton collider", Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 116009, arXiv:2101.10476.

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Authors

Dr Hamzeh Khanpour (AGH University of Kraków) Help4CERN Collaboration

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