NLO electroweak corrections to multi-boson processes at a muon collider

Abstract

Abstract We present results on NLO electroweak (EW) corrections to multiple massive boson production processes at a future muon collider. Inclusive cross sections with $$ \mathcal{O} $$ O (α) corrections for processes for up to four bosons in the final state as well as differential distributions for HZ production are computed for $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 3, 10 and 14 TeV by using FKS subtraction in the NLO EW automated Monte-Carlo framework WHIZARD+RECOLA. Large logarithmic effects due to collinear ISR and EW virtual correction factors as well as the impacts of an energy cut on hard photons are discussed with an emphasis on the properties of Higgsstrahlung. The potential of a proposed muon collider for studying physics of the EW sector is underlined by the EW corrections significantly affecting observables for processes at high energies and boson multiplicities.