Unveiling Light-Quark Yukawa Flavor Structure via Dihadron Fragmentation at Lepton Colliders

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Directly probing light-quark Yukawa couplings and their flavor structure remains a major challenge due to their smallness and overwhelming QCD backgrounds. In this Letter, we propose a theoretical framework to access these couplings at lepton colliders through transverse spin dependent azimuthal modulations in dihadron fragmentation. These modulations arise from the interference between Higgs mediated and standard model amplitudes in e − e + → q q ¯ Z , producing angular structures that are linearly sensitive to the Yukawa couplings y q , in contrast to conventional observables that scale as y q 2 . By combining channels with an identified accompanying single hadron, h ′ = π ± , K ± , and p / p ¯ , this approach cleanly disentangles the up- and down-quark Yukawa contributions, yielding typical limits at the O ( 10 − 4 – 10 − 3 ) level and establishing fragmentation dynamics as a novel and complementary probe of the Higgs flavor structure.
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  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (12547174)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (12422506)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (12342502)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (12235001)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (E429A6M1)
  • Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (JYB2025XDXM204)

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