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Charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) represents a transition between charged leptons of different generations that violates lepton flavor conservation, which is a clear signature of possible new physics beyond the standard model. By exploiting a typical example model of extra Z′ gauge boson, we perform a detailed comparative study on CLFV searches at several future lepton colliders, including a 240 GeV electron-positron collider and a TeV scale muon collider. Based on detailed signal and background Monte-Carlo studies with fast detector simulations, we derive the potentials in searching for Z′ mediated CLFV couplings with eμ, eτ and μτ of different future colliders. The results are compared with the current and prospect limits set by either low-energy experiments or the high-energy LHC experiments. The sensitivity of the τ related CLFV coupling strength at future lepton colliders will be significantly improved in comparison to the current best constraints and the prospect constraints for the μτ channel.
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Li, J., Wang, W., Cai, X. et al. A comparative study of Z′ mediated charged lepton flavor violation at future lepton colliders. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)190
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