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在未来缪子对撞机上寻找陶轻子的轻子味破坏衰变

Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the tau lepton at a future muon collider

Gholamhossein Haghighat, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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本研究在未来缪子对撞机上探索陶轻子的轻子味破坏衰变τ→ℓa,通过多变量技术和极化束流抑制背景,将LFV耦合限制提升约一个数量级。

摘要:

陶轻子可以与缪子或电子以及轴子样粒子(ALP)具有轻子味破坏(LFV)耦合。ALP是与自发破缺的全局U(1)对称性相关的赝南部-戈德斯通玻色子。LFV ALP在过去几十年中一直备受关注,因为它们可以解决标准模型(SM)的一些长期存在的问题。假设未来缪子加速器计划(MAP)提出的未来缪子对撞机,我们寻找在缪子-反缪子湮灭中产生的其中一个陶轻子的LFV衰变τ→ℓa(ℓ=e,μ)。假设ALP质量在100 eV到1 MeV范围内,并考虑LFV耦合的三种不同手性结构。使用多变量技术并基于理想目标性能执行参数化模拟,我们获得了LFV耦合陶子-电子-ALP和陶子-缪子-ALP的预期95%置信水平上限。计算上限时假设未来缪子对撞机将在126、350和1500 GeV的质心能量下运行。我们研究了非极化和极化缪子束流两种情况,并表明利用陶子极化诱导效应,主要背景τ→e/μ+νν̄可以被显著减少。结果表明,使用本分析可以将当前对LFV耦合的限制改善约一个数量级。

英文摘要:

Tau leptons can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to a muon or an electron and an Axion-Like Particle (ALP). ALPs are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global U(1) symmetries. LFV ALPs have been of a great interest in the last several decades as they can address some of the SM long-lasting problems. Assuming a future muon collider proposed by the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP), we search for LFV decays $τ\rightarrow\ell a$ ($\ell=e,μ$) of one of the tau leptons produced in the muon-anti muon annihilation. The ALP mass is assumed to be in the range 100 eV to 1 MeV and three different chiral structures are considered for the LFV coupling. Using a multivariate technique and performing a parameterized simulation based on the ideal target performance, we obtain expected 95$\%$ confidence level upper limits on the LFV couplings tau-electron-ALP and tau-muon-ALP. Limits are computed assuming the center-of-mass energies of 126, 350 and 1500 GeV which the future muon collider is supposed to operate at. We study the two cases of unpolarized and polarized muon beams and show that taking advantage of tau polarization-induced effects, the main background $τ\rightarrow e/μ+ ν\barν$ can be significantly reduced. Results indicate that current limits on the LFV couplings can be improved by roughly one order of magnitude using the present analysis.

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