Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2022)

Probing heavy charged fermions at e + e − collider using the optimal observable technique

  • Subhaditya Bhattacharya,
  • Sahabub Jahedi,
  • Jose Wudka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2022)009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 5
pp. 1 – 33

Abstract

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Abstract In this work we study the production of color-neutral and singly-charged heavy leptons at the proposed International Linear Collider. We use the optimal observable technique to determine the statistical accuracy to which the coupling of such fermions to the Z gauge boson (vector, axial or chiral) can be measured. We also consider a UV-complete model that contains these particles as well as a dark matter candidate, and consider some observable effects involving both; the correspondence to chargino production in supersymmetric models with heavy sleptons is briefly discussed.

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