Neutrino Tridents and W-boson production at the Muon Collider
Abstract
Muon colliders are exceptionally intense sources of multi-TeV neutrinos, allowing even relatively small detectors to record large rates of neutrino interactions. In addition to serving as neutrino-ion collider for precision measurements of neutrino deep inelastic scattering, this setup allow to study even rare neutrino processes with at high statistics. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of measuring neutrino trident and on-shell W-boson production, predicting over one million trident events and one hundred thousand W-boson events in a 100 kg silicon-based active target over ten years and allowing to detect these processes for the first time. We further show that these measurements could constrain new vector and axial-vector interactions beyond projected DUNE sensitivities and provide unprecedented constraints on the high-x photon distribution through W-boson production near threshold. We also discuss strategies for signal-background discrimination and the resulting detector requirements.
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BibTeX
@misc{kling2026neutrino,
title = {{Neutrino Tridents and $W$-boson production at the Muon Collider}},
author = {Felix Kling and Toni Mäkelä and Sebastian Trojanowski and Bei Zhou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.17263},
eprint = {2610.17263},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17263},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Neutrino Tridents and W-boson production at the Muon Collider
AU - Felix Kling
AU - Toni Mäkelä
AU - Sebastian Trojanowski
AU - Bei Zhou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.17263
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17263
AB - Muon colliders are exceptionally intense sources of multi-TeV neutrinos, allowing even relatively small detectors to record large rates of neutrino interactions. In addition to serving as neutrino-ion collider for precision measurements of neutrino deep inelastic scattering, this setup allow to study even rare neutrino processes with at high statistics. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of measuring neutrino trident and on-shell W-boson production, predicting over one million trident events and one hundred thousand W-boson events in a 100 kg silicon-based active target over ten years and allowing to detect these processes for the first time. We further show that these measurements could constrain new vector and axial-vector interactions beyond projected DUNE sensitivities and provide unprecedented constraints on the high-x photon distribution through W-boson production near threshold. We also discuss strategies for signal-background discrimination and the resulting detector requirements.
ER -