Search for the anomalous quartic gauge couplings through Zγ production at e - e + colliders

Spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry of the standard model (SM) sets the constraints on triple and quartic gauge couplings. Therefore, the measurement of multiboson production in e(-)e(+) collisions allows us to directly test the predictions of the SM and to indirectly probe new physics beyond the SM. In this paper, we focus on the process e(-)e(+) -> e(-)Z gamma e(+) with Z boson decaying into neutrinos to study the anomalous quartic gauge couplings using the effective Lagrangian approach at the compact linear collider (CLIC). We obtain the sensitivities on the anomalous f(T,i)/Lambda(4) (i = 0, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) couplings taking into account the systematic uncertainties of 3, 5% at 95% Confidence Level for the CLIC with root s = 3TeV. Our results show that the sensitivities on some anomalous couplings without systematic errors are up to two orders of magnitude better than the current experimental limits. Considering a realistic systematic uncertainty such as 5% from possible experimental sources, the sensitivity of all anomalous quartic couplings becomes worse by about 10% compared to those without systematic uncertainty for the CLIC.