Probing Lepton-Flavor-Violating Four-Lepton Operators at a Muon Collider
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 , , and at , , and ~TeV, incorporating beam polarisation and hadronic 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 -, 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}
}
Comments
19 pages, 8 figures, 5 Tables