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A muon collider would be a powerful probe of flavor violation in new physics. There is a strong complementary case for collider measurements and precision low-energy probes of lepton flavor violation (as well as CP violation). We illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 Samuel Homiller , Qianshu Lu , Matthew Reece

We study the lepton-flavor-violating reaction $\mu^+ e^- \to e^+ e^-$ within two extensions of the standard model that include heavy neutrinos. The reaction is studied in the low energy limit in the form of muonium decay $M\to e^+ e^-$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gorazd Cvetic , Claudio O. Dib , Choong-Sun Kim , JungDae Kim

The future Electron-Ion Collider will utilize high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($e+A$) collisions to solve several fundamental questions in the high energy nuclear physics field. Heavy flavor products…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-08-06 Xuan Li

The small neutrino mass observed in neutrino oscillations is nicely explained by the seesaw mechanism. Rich phenomenology is generally expected if the heavy neutrinos are not much heavier than the electroweak scale. A model with this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jian-Ping Bu , Yi Liao , Ji-Yuan Liu

We analyse l W nu production at ILC, paying special attention to the role of the final lepton flavour and beam polarisation in the search for a new heavy neutrino N. We show that a sizeable coupling to the electron V_eN ~ 10^-2 is necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 F. del Aguila , J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , A. Martinez de la Ossa , D. Meloni

We explore the possibility of probing flavor violations in the charged-lepton sector by means of high-luminosity lepton-photon and electron-muon collisions, by inverting initial and final states in a variety of decay channels presently used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele , Roberto Onofrio

Flavor-breaking interactions due to heavy new physics can be probed at a 10 TeV muon collider in the high-energy production of quarks and leptons. The high collision energy mitigates the suppression of the new interactions, offering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Alfredo Glioti , David Marzocca , Andrea Wulzer

This paper investigates the search for heavy neutral leptons (HNL) in the type I seesaw mechanism at the Future Circular Collider in its $e^+e^-$ stage (FCC-ee), considering a luminosity of 125 ab$^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=$91.2 GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-25 Sehar Ajmal , Patrizia Azzi , Sofia Giappichini , Markus Klute , Orlando Panella , Matteo Presilla , Xunwu Zuo

Lepton flavor violating Higgs decays could appear in scenarios beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In this article, we study the sensitivity of a future Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to such processes, namely, $h\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Francisca Garay , Gabriel Vega , Philipp Roloff

Observation of charged lepton flavor violation would constitute unambiguous evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). We identify a previously unexplored same-sign dimuon signature in electron-photon collisions, $\gamma e^- \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Zhong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Zeren Simon Wang

There is no guarantee that the violation of lepton number, assuming it exists, will primarily manifest itself in neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). Lepton-number violation and lepton-flavor violation may be related, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-14 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , Andrew Kobach

The tau lepton plays important role in the correlation between the low-energy neutrino oscillation data and the lepton flavor structure in heavy neutrino decay. We investigate the lepton flavor signatures with tau lepton at hadron collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Chengcheng Han , Tong Li , Chang-Yuan Yao

Recently, muon production in electron-proton scattering has been suggested as a possible candidate reaction for the identification of lepton-flavor violation due to physics beyond the Standard Model. Here we point out that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Prashanth Jaikumar , Daniel R. Phillips , Lucas Platter , Madappa Prakash

Taking into account the constraints on the lepton flavor violation (LFV) couplings of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson H with leptons from low energy experiments and the recent Compact Muon Solenoid experiment results, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-09 Chong-Xing Yue , Cong Pang , Yu-Chen Guo

We show the outstanding potential of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) to discover charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) via the ultra-peripheral process $\gamma\gamma \to e^\pm\mu^\mp$. Using a gauge-invariant Effective Field Theory (EFT)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 M. A. Arroyo-Ureña , O. Félix-Beltrán , J. Hernández-Sánchez , C. G. Honorato , S. Rosado-Navarro

We estimate the sensitivity of Wilson coefficients of the lepton flavor-violating dimension-six operators at the proposed $\mu^+\mu^-$ collider. We compute the signal significance at $\sqrt{s}$ = 3 and 10 TeV, respectively, with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Sukanta Dutta , Purnath Unnikrishnan , Yashasvi

We explore the discovery potential of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), motivated by models addressing the origin of neutrino masses, at the proposed high-energy same-sign muon collider known as $\mu$TRISTAN. The study focuses on two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Ryuichiro Kitano , Ian Low , Ryutaro Matsudo , Shohei Okawa , Subhojit Roy

The proposed high luminosity high energy Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will explore the proton/nuclear structure in a wide Bjorken-x ($x_{BJ}$) and $Q^{2}$ phase space. Heavy flavor products are generated in initial collisions and have their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-06-21 Xuan Li

Hints of flavor violation at both charged and neutral current decays of mesons have been observed in experiments such as LHCb, Belle, and BaBar. The anomalies in the result can be addressed in the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Nilanjana Kumar

We utilize the lepton number violation signal process $p\, e^- \to \tau^+ jjj$ to search for heavy Majorana neutrinos at future proton-electron colliders. The LHeC (FCC-eh) is considered to run with an electron beam energy of 60 GeV, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-26 Haiyong Gu , Ying-nan Mao , Hao Sun , Kechen Wang