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Probing Lepton-Flavor-Violating Four-Lepton Operators at a Muon Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate charged lepton-flavour violation (LFV) induced by dimension-six four-lepton operators within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory at a proposed high-energy muon collider. We study the processes μ+μe±τ\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\to e^{\pm}\tau^{\mp}, μ+μe±μ\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\to e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}, and μ+μμ±τ\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\to \mu^{\pm}\tau^{\mp} at s=3\sqrt{s}=3, 1010, and 1414~TeV, incorporating beam polarisation and hadronic τ\tau reconstruction. Using an optimal-observable analysis of the angular distributions, we perform a global fit to the relevant set of four-lepton operators. Projected sensitivities reach C/Λ2(0.6C/\Lambda^{2}\sim(0.6-1.6)×1011GeV21.6)\times10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-2}, depending on the flavour and chiral structure of the operator, exceeding current limits by up to an order of magnitude. A combined analysis of multiple centre-of-mass energies and beam polarisations significantly improves the resolution of correlations among the Wilson coefficients. These results highlight the strong sensitivity of a future multi-TeV muon collider to charged lepton flavour violating four-lepton interactions, establishing it as a powerful probe of the SMEFT parameter space.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.26020,
  title  = {Probing Lepton-Flavor-Violating Four-Lepton Operators at a Muon Collider},
  author = {Sukanta Dutta and Purnath Unnikrishnan and Yashasvi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26020},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages, 8 figures, 5 Tables