A Case Study of the Sensitivity to LFV Operators with Precision Measurements and the LHC

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We compare the sensitivity of precision measurements of lepton flavour observables to the reach of the LHC in a case study of lepton-flavour violating operators of dimension six with two leptons and two quarks.

• For light quarks precision measurements always yield the more stringent constraints.
• The LHC complements precision measurements for operators with heavier quarks.
• Competitive limits can already be set on the cutoff scale $\Lambda$ > 600 - 800 GeV for operators with right-handed $\tau$ leptons using the LHC run 1 data.