Hunting the Flavon

Understand

The next generation of experiments in particle physics will for the first time systematically test flavor physics models based on flavon fields.

• Starting from the current quark-flavor constrains on such models we show how the new generation of lepton flavor experiments will dominate indirect searches in the coming decades.
• A future 100 TeV hadron collider will then be the first experiment to probe flavons as propagating degrees of freedom.
• Our estimate of the collider reach relies on a proper treatment of backgrounds and detector effects.