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The couplings of the Higgs boson (H) with massive gauge bosons of weak interaction (V = W, Z), can be probed in single Higgs boson production at the proposed future Large Hadron-Electron Collider (LHeC). In the collision of an electron with a pro- ton, single Higgs production takes place via so-called charged-current (e−p → νeHj) and neutral-current (e−p → e−Hj) processes. We explore the potential of the azimuthal angle correlation between the forward jet and scattered neutrino or electron in probing the non-standard HVV couplings at the collider center-of-mass energy of \( \sqrt{s} \) ≈ 1.3 TeV. We choose the most general modifications (of CP-even and CP-odd nature) to these couplings due to new physics effects beyond the standard model. We derive exclusion limits on new physics parameters of HV V couplings as a function of integrated luminosity at 95% C.L. using the azimuthal angular correlations in charged- and neutral-current processes. We find that using 1000 fb−1 data, the standard model-like new physics parameters in HWW and HZZ couplings can be constrained with accuracies of 4% and 15%, respectively. The least constrained CP-even parameters of HWW coupling can be as large as 0.04, while those of HZZ coupling can have values around 0.31. Allowed values of CP-odd parameters in HWW and HZZ couplings are found to be around 0.14 and 0.34, respectively. We also study changes in the allowed values of non-trivial new physics parameters in the presence of other parameters.
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Sharma, P., Shivaji, A. Probing non-standard HVV (V = W, Z) couplings in single Higgs production at future electron-proton collider. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 108 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)108
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