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Probing topcolor-assisted technicolor from lepton flavor violating processes in photon-photon collision at ILC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-30 v3

Abstract

In topcolor-assisted technicolor models (TC2) the hitherto unconstrained lepton flavor mixing induced by the new gauge boson ZZ' will lead to the lepton flavor violating productions of τμˉ\tau\bar \mu, τeˉ\tau\bar e and μeˉ\mu\bar e in photon-photon collision at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). Through a comparative analysis of these processes, we find that the better channels to probe the TC2 is the production of τμˉ\tau\bar \mu or τeˉ\tau\bar e which occurs at a much higher rate than μeˉ\mu\bar e production due to the large mixing angle and the large flavor changing coupling, and may reach the detectable level of the ILC for a large part of the parameter space. Since the rates predicted by the Standard Model are far below the detectable level, these processes may serve as a sensitive probe for the TC2 model.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0659,
  title  = {Probing topcolor-assisted technicolor from lepton flavor violating processes in photon-photon collision at ILC},
  author = {Guo-Li Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0659},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures