Probing new physics through entanglement in diboson production

Acknowledgements: RA’s research was supported by the F.R.S.-FNRS project no. 40005600 and the FSR Program of UCLouvain. FM is partially supported by the F.R.S.- FNRS under the “Excellence of Science” EOS be.h project no. 30820817. LM is supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme (grant agreement n.950246).Abstract Pair production of heavy vector bosons is a key process at colliders: it allows to test our understanding of the Standard Model and to explore the existence of new physics through precision measurements of production rates and differential distributions. New physics effects can be subtle and often require observables specifically designed for their detection. In this study, we focus on quantum information observables that characterise the spin states of the final diboson system. We analyse concurrence bounds, purity, and Bell inequalities for a bipartite qutrit system representing two massive gauge bosons. Our findings show that quantum spin observables can serve as complementary probes for heavy new physics as parametrised by higher dimensional operators in the Standard Model effective field theory. In particular, we find that these observables offer increased sensitivity to operators whose contributions do not interfere with the Standard Model amplitudes at the level of differential cross sections.