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Lepton flavor physics at $\mu^+ \mu^+$ colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-14 v2

Abstract

We discuss sensitivities to lepton flavor violating (and conserving) interactions at future muon colliders, especially at μ+μ+\mu^+\mu^+ colliders. Compared with the searches for rare decays of μ\mu and τ\tau, we find that the TeV-scale future colliders have better sensitivities depending on the pattern of hierarchy in the flavor mixings. As an example, we study the case with the type-II seesaw model, where the flavor mixing parameters have direct relation to the neutrino mass matrix. At a μ+μ+\mu^+ \mu^+ collider, the number of events of the μ+μ+μ+τ+\mu^+ \mu^+ \to \mu^+ \tau^+ process can be larger than O(100)\mathcal{O}(100) with the center of mass energy s=2\sqrt s = 2 TeV, and with an integrated luminosity L=1{\cal L} = 1 ab1^{-1}, while satisfying bounds from rare decays of μ\mu and τ\tau. We discuss impacts of the overall mass scale of neutrinos as well as CP violating phases to the number of expected events.

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@article{arxiv.2304.14020,
  title  = {Lepton flavor physics at $\mu^+ \mu^+$ colliders},
  author = {Kåre Fridell and Ryuichiro Kitano and Ryoto Takai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14020},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages, 7 figures

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