Search for lepton flavor violation via the intense high-energy muon beam

Abstract

A deep inerastic scattering process \mutau is discussed to study lepton flavor violation between muons and tau leptons. In supersymmetric models, the Higgs boson mediated diagrams could be important for this reaction. We find that at a muon energy ($E_{\mu }$) higher than 50 GeV, the predicted cross section significantly increases due to the contribution from sea $b$-quarks. The number of produced tau leptons can be $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ at $E_{\mu }$= 300 GeV from $10^{20}$ muons, whereas $\mathcal{O}(10^2)$ events are given at $E_{\mu }=50$ GeV.

arXiv commentContribution to the 6th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams(NuFact04), Jul. 26-Aug. 1, 2004, Osaka Univerisity, Osaka, Japan, talk given by S.K., to appear in the Proceedings, 3 pages, 4 figures

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