Coherent e[sup +]e[sup −] pair creation at high energy muon colliders

Abstract A high energy muon collider can provide new and complementary discovery potential to the LHC or future hadron colliders. Leptoquarks are a motivated class of exotic new physics models, with distinct production channels at hadron and lepton machines. We study a vector leptoquark model at a muon collider with $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 3, 14 TeV within a set of both UV and phenomenologically motivated flavor scenarios. We compute which production mechanism has the greatest reach for various values of the leptoquark mass and the coupling between leptoquark and Standard Model fermions. We find that we can probe leptoquark masses up to an order of magnitude beyond $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s with perturbative couplings. Additionally, we can also probe regions of parameter space unavailable to flavor experiments. In particular, all of the parameter space of interest to explain recent low-energy anomalies in B meson decays would be covered even by a $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 3 TeV collider.

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Vector boson fusion at multi-TeV muon colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics ◽

10.1007/jhep09(2020)080 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Antonio Costantini ◽

Federico De Lillo ◽

Fabio Maltoni ◽

Luca Mantani ◽

Olivier Mattelaer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Vector Boson ◽

High Energy ◽

New Physics ◽

Vector Boson Fusion ◽

Weak Boson ◽

Wide Range ◽

Lepton Colliders ◽

Muon Colliders ◽

New Phenomena

Abstract High-energy lepton colliders with a centre-of-mass energy in the multi-TeV range are currently considered among the most challenging and far-reaching future accelerator projects. Studies performed so far have mostly focused on the reach for new phenomena in lepton-antilepton annihilation channels. In this work we observe that starting from collider energies of a few TeV, electroweak (EW) vector boson fusion/scattering (VBF) at lepton colliders becomes the dominant production mode for all Standard Model processes relevant to studying the EW sector. In many cases we find that this also holds for new physics. We quantify the size and the growth of VBF cross sections with collider energy for a number of SM and new physics processes. By considering luminosity scenarios achievable at a muon collider, we conclude that such a machine would effectively be a “high-luminosity weak boson collider,” and subsequently offer a wide range of opportunities to precisely measure EW and Higgs couplings as well as discover new particles.

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