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Lepton flavor violating top quark FCNC processes at the
Phys. Rev. D 113, 095010 – Published 5 May, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jnnt-6t8f
Abstract
We investigate charged lepton flavor violating top quark flavor-changing neutral current interactions at the proposed asymmetric muon-electron collision stage of the collider, operating at a center-of-mass energy of 346 GeV. Specifically, we study the process () with , , within the framework of three classes of four-fermion contact interactions: scalar, vector, and tensor operators. A cut-based analysis is performed using boost-invariant kinematic observables, followed by a likelihood-based statistical treatment to derive projected sensitivities for each operator. For an integrated luminosity of , the projected constraints improve upon current LHC bounds on the corresponding effective couplings by approximately an order of magnitude. Projections for indicate even stronger sensitivity, indicating improved reach at higher luminosity. Additionally, we explore the impact of initial-state beam polarization on these projections, showing how it can further enhance sensitivity to specific operator structures.
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