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Direct CKM determination from W decays at future lepton colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We project the reach of future lepton colliders for measuring CKM elements from direct observations of WW decays. We focus our attention to Vcs|V_{cs}| and Vcb|V_{cb}| determinations, using FCC-ee as case study. We employ state-of-the-art jet flavor taggers to obtain the projected sensitivity, and scan over tagger performances to show their effect. We conclude that future lepton collider can sizeably improve the sensitivity on Vcs|V_{cs}| and Vcb|V_{cb}|, albeit the achievable reach will strongly depend on the level of systematic uncertainties on tagger parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2405.08880,
  title  = {Direct CKM determination from W decays at future lepton colliders},
  author = {David Marzocca and Manuel Szewc and Michele Tammaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08880},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures. Matches version published in JHEP

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