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We explore the experimental sensitivities of measuring the gg → Zγ process at the LHC to the dimension-8 quartic couplings of gluon pairs to the Z boson and photon, in addition to comparing them with the analogous sensitivities in the gg → γγ process. These processes can both receive contributions from 4 different CP-conserving dimension-8 operators with distinct Lorentz structures that contain a pair of gluon field strengths, \( {\hat{G}}_{\mu v}^a \), and a pair of electroweak SU(2) gauge field strengths, \( {W}_{\mu v}^i \), as well as 4 similar operators containing a pair of \( {\hat{G}}_{\mu v}^a \) and a pair of U(1) gauge field strengths, Bμν. We calculate the scattering angular distributions for gg → Zγ and the Z → \( \overline{f}f \) decay angular distributions for these 4 Lorentz structures, as well as the Standard Model background. We analyze the sensitivity of ATLAS measurements of the Z(→ ℓ+ℓ−, \( \overline{\nu}\nu \), \( \overline{q}q \))γ final states with integrated luminosities up to 139 fb−1 at \( \sqrt{s} \) = 13 TeV, showing that they exclude values ≲ 2 TeV for the dimension-8 operator scales, and compare the Zγ sensitivity with that of an ATLAS measurement of the γγ final state. We present combined Zγ and γγ constraints on the scales of dimension-8 SMEFT operators and γγ constraints on the nonlinearity scale of the Born-Infeld extension of the Standard Model. We also estimate the sensitivities to dimension-8 operators of experiments at possible future proton-proton colliders with centre-of-mass energies of 25, 50 and 100 TeV, and discuss possible measurements of the Z spin and angular correlations.
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Ellis, J., Ge, SF. & Ma, K. Hadron collider probes of the quartic couplings of gluons to the photon and Z boson. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 123 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2022)123
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