Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2023) 138: 1130
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04779-4

Regular Article

Expected sensitivity on the anomalous quartic neutral gauge couplings in $\gamma \gamma$ collisions at the CLIC

¹ Facultad de Física, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Apartado Postal C-580, 98060, Zacatecas, Mexico
² Department of Physics, Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey
³ Department of Physics, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, 58140, Sivas, Turkey
⁴ Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
⁵ Unidad Académica de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Apartado Postal C-585, 98060, Zacatecas, Mexico

^a alexgu@fisica.uaz.edu.mx

Received: 13 October 2023
Accepted: 6 December 2023
Published online: 18 December 2023

Abstract

The non-Abelian gauge structure of the Standard Model (SM) implies the presence of multi-boson self-interactions. Precise measurements of these interactions allow testing the nature of the SM and new physics contributions arising from the beyond SM. The investigation of these interactions can be approached in a model-independent manner using an effective theory approach, which forms the main motivation of this study. In this paper, we examine the anomalous neutral quartic gauge couplings through the process $\gamma \gamma \to ZZ$ at the Compact Linear Collider with the center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=3$ TeV and integrated luminosity of $\mathcal{L}=5$$\mathrm{a}{b}^{-1}$. The anomalous neutral quartic gauge couplings are implemented into FeynRules to generate a UFO module inserted into Madgraph to create background and signal events. These events are passed through Pythia 8 for parton showering and Delphes to include realistic detector effects. We obtain that the sensitivities on the anomalous quartic neutral gauge couplings with $95\%$ Confidence Level are given as: $f_{T0}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-1.06;1.08]\times {10}^{-3}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$, $f_{T1}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-1.06;1.08]\times {10}^{-3}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$,$f_{T2}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-1.06;1.08]\times {10}^{-3}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$,$f_{T0}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-1.06;1.08]\times {10}^{-3}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$, $f_{T5}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-4.08;4.08]\times {10}^{-4}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$ and $f_{T8}/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4=[-1.10;1.10]\times {10}^{-4}$${\mathrm{TeV}}^{-4}$. Our results on the anomalous quartic neutral gauge couplings are set to a more stringent sensitivity concerning the recent experimental limits.