24–26 May 2021
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Complementary Probes of Lepton Flavor at a Muon Collider

24 May 2021, 16:30
15m
Flavor Flavor II

Speaker

Qianshu Lu

Description

Low energy probes of lepton flavor violation (LFV) are indirectly probing new physics beyond the TeV scale, with order of magnitude advances expected in the future. A high energy muon collider would have the reach to probe similar processes at higher energies, e.g., via 𝜇𝜇→𝜏𝜇, which can be compared to the low-energy flavor-violating decay bounds. Alternatively, in particular models of new physics, new particles with flavor-violating interactions can be produced directly, such as mixed slepton pair production in the MSSM. I’ll present some first estimates of the physics reach of a muon collider for both of these scenarios, with an emphasis on the complementarity between low-energy precision experiments and high-energy muon collider searches.

Authors

Qianshu Lu Dr Matthew Reece (Harvard University) Dr Samuel Homiller (Harvard University)

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