Higgs Boson Creation in Laser-Boosted Lepton Collisions

Abstract

Electroweak processes in high-energy lepton collisions are considered in a situation where the incident center-of-mass energy lies below the reaction threshold, but is boosted to the required level by subsequent laser acceleration. Within the framework of laser-dressed quantum field theory, we study the laser-boosted process ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\to H{Z}^0$ in detail and specify the technical demands needed for its experimental realization. Further, we outline possible qualitative differences to field-free processes regarding the detection of the produced Higgs bosons.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table