https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202431501023
Prospects for constraining light-quark electroweak couplings at Higgs factories
1 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
2 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
3 KEK, 1-1 Oho Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
4 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics ICEPP, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
* e-mail: k.mekala@uw.edu.pl
Published online: 18 December 2024
Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the Z-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks could reveal potential discrepancies between the fundamental theory and experimental data. Future e+e− colliders running at the Z-pole and around the ZH threshold would be an excellent tool to perform such a measurement, unlike the LHC where hadronic Z decays are only available in boosted topologies. The measurement is based on comparison of radiative and non-radiative hadronic decays. Due to the difference in quark charge, the relative contribution of the events with final-state radiation (FSR) directly reflects the ratio of decays involving up-and down-type quarks. Such an analysis requires proper modeling and statistical discrimination between photons coming from different sources, including initial-state radiation (ISR), FSR, parton showers and hadronisation. In our contribution, we show how to extract the values of the Z couplings to light quarks and present the estimated uncertainties of the measurement.
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