2022/03/14 by Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Gadam, Sri Aditya, Profumo, Stefano
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.07495
In this white paper for the Snowmass process, we discuss the prospects of probing new physics explanations of the persistent rare B decay anomalies with a muon collider. If the anomalies are indirect signs of heavy new physics, non-standard rates for μ+ μ- → b s production should be observed with high significance at a muon collider with center of mass energy of √(s) = 10 TeV. The forward-backward asymmetry of the b-jet provides diagnostics of the chirality structure of the new physics couplings. In the absence of a signal, μ+ μ- → b s can indirectly probe new physics scales as large as 86 TeV. Beam polarization would have an important impact on the new physics sensitivity.