# 8th Edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference

May 25 – 30, 2020
Europe/Paris timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

## Probing $Zt\bar{t}$ couplings using $Z$ boson polarization in $ZZ$ production at hadron colliders

May 28, 2020, 6:45 PM
1h
Theory poster Electroweak physics

### Speaker

Dr Bin Yan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

### Description

We propose to utilize the polarization information of the $Z$ bosons in $ZZ$ production, via the gluon-gluon fusion process $gg\to ZZ$, to probe the $Zt\bar{t}$ gauge coupling. The contribution of longitudinally polarized $Z$ bosons is sensitive to the axial-vector component ($a_t$) of the $Zt\bar{t}$ coupling. We demonstrate that the angular distribution of the charged lepton from $Z$ boson decays serves well for measuring the polarization of $Z$ bosons and the determination of $a_t$. We show that $ZZ$ production via the $gg\to ZZ$ process complement to $Zt\bar{t}$ and $tZj$ productions in measuring the $Zt\bar{t}$ coupling at hadron colliders.

### Primary author

Dr Bin Yan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

### Co-authors

Prof. Qing-Hong Cao (Peking University) Prof. C.-P Yuan (Michigan State University) Dr Ya Zhang (Peking University)

### Presentation materials

 ggvv_poster_BY.pdf poster_video.mp4 zoom meeting room