Abstract
The observation of lepton flavor violation indicates new physics beyond the Standard Model. Lepton colliders are ideal facilities to probe charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) signals induced by new physics at high energy. We perform a comprehensive study of the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to charged lepton flavor violation. We consider the most general renormalizable Lagrangian coupling two leptons to new bosonic particles, involving both $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}L=0$ and $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}L=2$ interactions. The CLFV processes are introduced by the exchange of off-shell new particles at tree level. We find that CEPC, ILC, FCC-ee, and CLIC each provide a complementary probe of CLFV couplings to low-energy precision experiments for $\ensuremath{\tau}$ lepton(s) in final states, while low-energy precision experiments are more sensitive in the absence of $\ensuremath{\tau}$ leptons.
Highlights
The observation of lepton flavor violation (LFV) clearly indicates new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM)
Massive neutrinos themselves can lead to charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) processes from right-handed Dirac neutrinos in the SM or from Majorana neutrinos induced by the so-called Weinberg operator
We present the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to the CLFV couplings in Sec
Summary
The observation of lepton flavor violation (LFV) clearly indicates new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Note that we will not include the results of ILC with 2 ab−1 luminosity at 250 GeV, as the c.m. energy of proposed ILC is very close to that of CEPC and FCC-ee and its integrated luminosity is much smaller as a linear collider. We instead study the scattering CLFV processes mediated by the new particles beyond the SM at lepton colliders The advantage of this scenario of off-shell channels is that one can directly compare the projected limit of CLFV couplings with current low-energy precision constraints. We present the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to the CLFV couplings in Sec. IV, where we show the comparison to the low-energy constraints. Some technical details for low-energy precision constraints are collected in the Appendix
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