  The search for new physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the central
problems of current high energy physics interest. As the luminosities of
current and near-future colliders continue to increase, the search for new
physics has increased the requirements for processing large amounts of data.
Meanwhile, quantum computing which is rapidly evolving, has great potential to
become a powerful tool to help search for new physics signals. Since the
k-means algorithm is known to be able to be accelerated with the help of
quantum computing, we investigate and propose an event selection strategy based
on k-means algorithm to search for new physics signals. Taking the case of
tri-photon processes at the muon colliders as an example, the event selection
strategy is shown to be effective in helping to search for the signals of
dimension-8 operators contributing to anomalous quartic gauge couplings.
Compared with traditional event selection strategy, the expected constraints
are generally tighter.
