https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-026-07697-3
Regular Article
Higgs self-coupling measurement at a linear collider at 550 GeV
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA
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International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Received:
25
February
2026
Accepted:
14
April
2026
Published online:
5
May
2026
Abstract
The Higgs mechanism is essential for the success of the Standard Model (SM) and can be experimentally verified with the determination of the Higgs self-coupling. As the simplest model of a Higgs potential, the SM provides a clear prediction of the Higgs self-coupling in terms of the Higgs boson mass and the vacuum expectation value. Any deviations would indicate physics beyond the SM and help guide extended Higgs models. At large enough centre-of-mass energies, double-Higgs production provides tree-level sensitivity to the trilinear Higgs self-coupling. At 550 GeV the leading production mode in 
comes from di-Higgs strahlung with a small contribution from 
-fusion. The most up-to-date ILD projections are extrapolated based on a full simulation analysis from 2014 by incorporating expected improvements in flavour tagging and kinematic reconstruction for event selection and are presented in this contribution together with the ongoing re-analysis using fast SGV (Simulation a Grande Vitesse) simulations of the ILD detector concept on a full SM background including the aforementioned state-of-the-art reconstruction and analysis tools.
Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS 2025), October 20–24 2025.
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