Journal of High Energy Physics (Nov 2024)

Direct CKM determination from W decays at future lepton colliders

  • David Marzocca,
  • Manuel Szewc,
  • Michele Tammaro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 11
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Abstract We project the reach of future lepton colliders for measuring CKM elements from direct observations of W decays. We focus our attention to |V cs | and |V cb | determinations, using FCC-ee as case study. We employ state-of-the-art jet flavor taggers to obtain the projected sensitivity, and scan over tagger performances to show their effect. We conclude that future lepton collider can sizeably improve the sensitivity on |V cs | and |V cb |, albeit the achievable reach will strongly depend on the level of systematic uncertainties on tagger parameters.

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