Abstract
Future $c\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\tau}$ factories are natural places to study extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics with new long-lived feebly interacting particles light enough to be produced in electron-positron collisions. We investigate prospects of these machines in exploring such extensions emphasizing the role of polarized beams in getting rid of the SM irreducible background for the missing energy signature. We illustrate this on the example of the $c\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\tau}$ project in Novosibirsk, where the electron beam is designed to be polarized to achieve much higher sensitivity to hadronic resonances and $\ensuremath{\tau}$ leptons. We investigate models with hidden photons, with millicharged particles (fermions and scalars), with ${Z}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ bosons and with axionlike particles. We find that the electron beam polarization of 80% significantly improves the chances to observe the signal, especially with large statistics. We outline the regions of the model parameter space which can be reached at this factory in one year and in ten years of operation according with the scientific schedule of tuning the energy of colliding beams.
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