24–26 May 2021
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Searching for New Physics at Muon Colliders

26 May 2021, 15:15
15m
BSM BSM V

Speaker

Cari Cesarotti (Harvard University)

Description

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 $\sqrt{s}$=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 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 $\sqrt{s}$=3 TeV collider.

Primary author

Cari Cesarotti (Harvard University)

Co-authors

Samuel Homiller (YITP, Stony Brook) Pouya Asadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Rodolfo Capdevilla (University of Notre Dame)

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