Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in $J/ψ$ decays at BESIII

Abstract

The observation of any charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) process would be a clear signal of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Various decay modes, including lepton ($μ, τ$) decays, pseudoscalar meson ($K,π$) decays, vector meson ($ϕ, J/ψ, Υ$) decays, and Higgs decays, have been explored to detect CLFV. Focusing on the search for CLFV at the $τ$-charm region, the results of the search for $J/ψ\to eτ/ eμ$ using the 10 billion $J/ψ$ events collected by the BESIII experiment are presented. The upper limits (ULs) at the 90$\%$ confidence level are $\mathcal{B}(J/ψ\to e^\pmτ^\mp)<7.5\times10^{-8}$ and $\mathcal{B}(J/ψ\to e^\pmμ^\mp)<4.5\times10^{-9}$, respectively. Improving the previously published limits by two orders of magnitudes, the results are the most stringent CLFV searches in heavy quarkonium system.