We study the excited muon production at the FCC-based muon-hadron colliders. We give the excited muon decay widths and production cross-sections. We deal with the μp→μ⋆q→μγq process and plot the transverse momentum and normalized pseudorapidity distributions of final state particles to define the kinematical cuts best suited for discovery. By using these cuts, we get the mass limits for excited muons. It is shown that the discovery limits obtained on the mass of μ⋆ are 2.2, 5.8, and 7.5 TeV for muon energies of 63, 750, and 1500 GeV, respectively.
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu114F3371. Introduction
Discovery of the Higgs boson by ATLAS and CMS collaborations in 2012 [1, 2] has proved the accuracy and reliability of the Standard Model (SM) of the particle physics. But, many questions about dark matter, supersymmetric particles, extra dimensions, neutrino masses, asymmetry between matter and antimatter, existence of new fundamental interactions, and fermion substructure are keeping their mystery and waiting to be solved. Many theories beyond the SM (BSM) have been proposed for these puzzling phenomena. Evidently, it is necessary to perform the particle physics experiments in more powerful colliders with higher energies and luminosities.
Compositeness is one of the BSM models that intend to solve the problem of fermionic families replication, by introducing more fundamental matter constituents called preons. Excited fermions are predicted by preonic models and their existence would be a strong evidence for fermion substructure [3–5]. If known quarks and leptons present composite structures, reasonable explanations could be given for the still unanswered questions about the number and replication of SM families and their mass hierarchy. The appearance of excited states is an indisputable consequence of composite structure of known fermions [6–9]. In composite models, SM fermions are considered as ground states of a rich and heavier spectrum of excited states. Charged (e⋆,μ⋆,τ⋆) and neutral (νe⋆,νμ⋆,ντ⋆) excited leptons come on the scene in the framework of composite models. Excited leptons with spin-1/2 and weak-isospin-1/2 are considered as the lowest radial and orbital excitations. Excited states with higher spins also appear in composite models [10–14].
Considerable searches for the spin-1/2 charged and neutral excited lepton signatures have been performed for the e+e- and ep colliders [15–18]; γγ [19–22] and eγ[14, 23] colliders; pp [24–27] and pp¯ [28–30] colliders. Production and decay properties of spin-1/2 excited leptons in a left-right symmetric scenario are studied in [31]. Also, spin-3/2 excited leptons are studied at various colliders in [32–38].
Excited electrons (e⋆) are extensively investigated in the field of excited leptonic state studies. To perform a main comparison it is necessary to study the other charged excited leptons (μ⋆ and τ⋆). In principle, μ⋆ and τ⋆ contributions would differ from e⋆ contribution in the mass and decay products of the SM leptons.
The mass limit for excited spin-1/2 muons obtained from their pair production (e+e-→μ+⋆μ-⋆) by OPAL collaboration at s=189-209 GeV is mμ∗>103.2 GeV [39]. From single production (pp→μμ⋆X), in events with three or more charged leptons at s=8 TeV including contact interactions in the μ⋆ production and decay mechanism, the ATLAS collaboration sets the mass limits as mμ∗>3000 GeV [40]. Other studies on excited muon searches can be found in [41–51].
Enormous efforts are being made for the research and development of new particle colliders for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) era and post-LHC era. A staged approach will be taken into consideration for the planning of these energy frontiers. The first stage is low-energy lepton colliders to make the precision measurements of the LHC discoveries. These projects are the International Linear Collider (ILC) [52] with a center-of-mass energy of 0.5 TeV and low-energy muon collider (a μ+μ- collider, shortly μC) [53]. Lepton-hadron collider projects would be considered as a second stage, including an ep collider under design, namely, Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) with s=1.3 TeV (possibly upgraded to s=1.96 TeV) [54, 55], and a hypothetical μp collider μ-LHC at this stage. The ILC with an increased center-of-mass energy (s=1 TeV), the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) [56] with an optimal center-of-mass energy of 3 TeV, and the Plasma Wake-Field Accelerator-Linear Collider project (PWFA-LC) [57] are high-energy linear e+e- colliders under consideration to be built after the LHC. On the side of muon colliders, μC with s up to 3 TeV is planned as a high-energy muon collider [53].
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) [58] project investigates the various concepts of the circular colliders at CERN for the post-LHC era. The FCC is proposed as the future pp collider with s=100 TeV and supported by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. Besides the pp option, it is also being planned to include the e+e- collider option (TLEP or FCC-ee) [59] and several ep collider options [60, 61].
Building a muon collider as a dedicated μ-ring tangential to the FCC will give opportunity to handle multi-TeV scale μp and μA colliders [62, 63]. Assumed values for muon energy, center-of-mass energy, and average instantaneous luminosity for different FCC-based μp collider options are given in Table 1.
Main parameters of the FCC-based μp collider.
Collider
Eμ (TeV)
s (TeV)
Lμp(cm-2s-1)
μ63-FCC
0.063
3.50
0.2×1031
μ750-FCC
0.75
12.2
50×1031
μ1500-FCC
1.5
17.3
50×1031
Excited muon searches would provide complementary information for the compositeness studies. This work is dedicated to the search for excited muons at future FCC-based muon-proton colliders. We introduce the effective Lagrangian responsible for the gauge interactions of excited muons and give their decay widths in Section 2. Production cross-sections and the analysis for the μ⋆→μγ decay mode are presented in Section 3. We summarized our results in Section 4.
2. Effective Lagrangian
A spin-1/2 excited lepton is the lowest radial and orbital excitation according to the classification by SU(2)×U(1) quantum numbers. Interactions between excited spin-1/2 leptons and ordinary leptons are of magnetic transition type [15, 16, 64]. The effective Lagrangian for the interaction between a spin-1/2 excited lepton, a gauge boson (V=γ,Z,W±), and the SM lepton is given by(1)L=12ΛlR∗¯σμνfgτ→2·W→μν+f′g′Y2BμνlL+h.c.,where Λ is the new physics scale, Wμν and Bμν are the field strength tensors, τ→ denotes the Pauli matrices, Y is the hypercharge, g and g′ are the gauge couplings, and f and f′ are the scaling factors for the gauge couplings of SU(2) and U(1); σμν=i(γμγν-γνγμ)/2 with γμ being the Dirac matrices. An excited lepton has three possible decay modes: radiative decay l⋆→lγ, neutral weak decay l⋆→lZ, and charged weak decay l⋆→νW. Neglecting the SM lepton mass, we find the decay width of excited leptons as(2)Γl⋆⟶lV=αm⋆34Λ2fV21-mV2m⋆221+mV22m⋆2,where fV is the new electroweak coupling parameter corresponding to the gauge boson V, and fγ=-(f+f′)/2, fZ=(-fcotθW+f′tanθW)/2, and fW=f/2sinθW; θW is the weak mixing angle, mV is the mass of the gauge boson, and m⋆ is the mass of the excited lepton. Total decay widths of excited leptons for Λ=m⋆ and Λ=100 TeV are given in Figure 1.
Decay width of excited leptons for Λ=m⋆ and Λ=100 TeV.
3. Excited Muon Production at μp Colliders
The FCC-based μp colliders will provide the potential reach for excited muon searches through the μp→μ⋆X process. Feynman diagrams for the subprocesses μq(q¯)→μ⋆q(q¯) are shown in Figure 2. We implemented excited muon interaction vertices in high-energy physics simulation programme CALCHEP [65–67] and used it in our calculations.
Leading-order Feynman diagrams for the μ⋆ production at μp collider.
The total cross-section for the process μp→μ⋆X as a function of the excited muon mass is shown in Figure 3. We used the CTEQ6L parton distribution function in our calculations.
Total cross-section as a function of the excited muon mass for the μp colliders with various center-of-mass energies for Λ=m∗ (a) and Λ=100 TeV (b), respectively.
For the analysis we take into account the μγ decay mode of the μ⋆. We deal with the process μp→μ⋆X→μγX (subprocess μq(q¯)→μγq(q¯)) and impose generic cuts, pT>20 GeV, for the final state muon, photon, and jets.
Standard Model cross-sections after the application of the generic cuts are σB=24.51 pb, σB=89.69 pb, and σB=122.43 pb for s=3.50,12.2, and 17.3 TeV, respectively. We show the transverse momentum distributions in Figure 4 (for μ63-FCC), in Figure 6 (for μ750-FCC), and in Figure 8 (for μ1500-FCC); the normalized pseudorapidity distributions are in Figure 5 (for μ63-FCC), in Figure 7 (for μ750-FCC), and in Figure 9 (for μ1500-FCC). We choose f=f′=1 and Λ=mμ⋆ in our calculations. As it is seen from Figures 4, 6, and 8 excited muons carry high transverse momentum and these distributions show a peak around mμ⋆/2. Also, normalized pseudorapidity distributions are so asymmetric. Since pseudorapidity is defined to be η=-ln(tan(θ/2)), where θ is the polar angle, it is concluded that excited muons are produced mostly in the backward direction.
Muon (a) and photon (b) pT distributions for the μ63-FCC.
Muon (a) and photon (b) normalized η distributions for the μ63-FCC.
Muon (a) and photon (b) pT distributions for the μ750-FCC.
Muon (a) and photon (b) normalized η distributions for the μ750-FCC.
Muon (a) and photon (b) pT distributions for the μ1500-FCC.
Muon (a) and photon (b) normalized η distributions for the μ750-FCC μ1500-FCC.
By examining these distributions we determine the discovery cuts presented in Table 2. To determine these discovery cuts we specify the optimal regions where we cut off the most of the background but at the same time do not affect the signal so much. Since we choose the μ⋆→μγ decay mode of the excited muon (try to identify the excited muons through its decay products), no further cut is made on jets.
Discovery cuts.
Collider
pTμ cut
pTγ cut
ημ cut
ηγ cut
μ63-FCC
pTμ>450 GeV
pTγ>300 GeV
-4.5<ημ<-0.8
-4.8<ηγ<-1.2
μ750-FCC
pTμ>1200 GeV
pTγ>900 GeV
-3.5<ημ<0.5
-4<ηγ<0.3
μ1500-FCC
pTμ>1500 GeV
pTγ>1500 GeV
-3<ημ<1
-4<ηγ<0.5
The invariant mass distributions following these cuts are shown in Figure 10. We define the statistical significance of the expected signal yield as(3)SS=σSσBϵ·Lint,where σS denotes cross-section due to the excited muon production and σB denotes the SM cross-section, Lint is the integrated luminosity of the collider, and ϵ is the selection efficiency to detect the signal in the chosen channel (ϵ is assumed to be the same both on signal and on background). Taking into account the criteria SS>3 (95% CL) and SS>5 (99% CL), we derive the mass limits for excited muons. Our results are summarized in Table 3.
Mass limits for μ⋆ at FCC-based μp colliders.
Collider
Lμp(cm-2s-1)
Λ
mμ⋆ (GeV)
3σ
5σ
μ63-FCC
0.2×1031
mμ⋆
2330
2250
100 TeV
2300
2180
μ750-FCC
50×1031
mμ⋆
6500
5950
100 TeV
6000
5830
μ1500-FCC
50×1031
mμ⋆
8050
7540
100 TeV
7930
7480
Invariant mass distributions of the μγ system after the discovery cuts for μ63-FCC, μ750-FCC, and μ1500-FCC, respectively.
4. Conclusion
It is shown that the FCC-based muon-proton colliders have a significant potential in excited muon investigations. We have studied the excited muon production and decay in various FCC-based μp collider options with muon energies of 63,750, and 1500 GeV. Our analysis shows that taking into account the SS>5 criteria, for Λ=m⋆, excited muon mass limits are 2250 GeV, 5950 GeV, and 7540 GeV, for s=3.5,12.2, and 17.3 TeV, respectively. Also, for the same criteria, for Λ=100 TeV, excited muon mass limits are 2180, 5830, and 7480 GeV for s=3.5,12.2, and 17.3 TeV, respectively.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Acknowledgments
A. Caliskan and S. O. Kara’s work is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the Grant no. 114F337.
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