Lepton Flavor Violation Induced by a Neutral Scalar at Future Lepton Colliders

Understand

Many new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model often necessitate the existence of a (light) neutral scalar $H$, which might couple to the charged leptons in a flavor violating way, while evading all existing constraints.

• We show that such scalars could be effectively produced at future lepton colliders, either on-shell or off-shell depending on their mass, and induce lepton flavor violating (LFV) signals, i.e.
• $e^+ e^- \to \ell_\alpha^\pm \ell_\beta^\mp (+H)$ with $\alpha\neq \beta$.
• We find that a large parameter space of the scalar mass and the LFV couplings can be probed, well beyond the current low-energy constraints in the lepton sector.