Angelescu A, Faroughy DA, Sumensari O. Lepton flavor violation and dilepton tails at the LHC.
THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2020;
80:641. [PMID:
32831630 PMCID:
PMC7410106 DOI:
10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8210-5]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Starting from a general effective Lagrangian for lepton flavor violation (LFV) in quark-lepton transitions, we derive constraints on the effective coefficients from the high-mass tails of the dilepton processes p p → ℓ k ℓ l (with k ≠ l ). The current (projected) limits derived in this paper from LHC data with 36 fb - 1 ( 3 ab - 1 ) can be applied to generic new physics scenarios, including the ones with scalar, vector and tensor effective operators. For purely left-handed operators, we explicitly compare these LHC constraints with the ones derived from flavor-physics observables, illustrating the complementarity of these different probes. While flavor physics is typically more constraining for quark-flavor violating operators, we find that LHC provides the most stringent limits on several flavor-conserving ones. Furthermore, we show that dilepton tails offer the best probes for charm-quark transitions at current luminosities and that they provide competitive limits for tauonic b → d transitions at the high-luminosity LHC phase. As a by-product, we also provide general numerical expressions for several low-energy LFV processes, such as the semi-leptonic decays K → π ℓ k ± ℓ l ∓ , B → π ℓ k ± ℓ l ∓ and B → K ( ∗ ) ℓ k ± ℓ l ∓ .
Collapse