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Title: Electron-positron, parton-parton, and photon-photon production of τ -lepton pairs: Anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments spin effects

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.

Anomalous contributions to the electric and magnetic dipole moments of the τ lepton from new physics scenarios have brought renewed interest in the development of new charge-parity violating signatures in τ-pair production at Belle II energies, and also at higher energies of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future Circular Collider. In this paper, we discuss the effects of spin correlations, including transverse degrees of freedom, in the τ-pair production and decay. These studies include calculating analytical formulas, obtaining numerical results, and building semirealistic observables sensitive to the transverse spin correlations induced by the dipole moments of the τ lepton. The effects of such anomalous contributions to the dipole moments are introduced on top of precision simulations of ee+ → ττ+, $$q\bar{q}$$→ ττ+ and $γγ$ → ττ+ processes, involving multibody final states. The τ decays are simulated along with radiative corrections, in particular electroweak box contributions of WW and ZZ exchanges are taken into account. Respective extensions of the Standard Model amplitudes and the reweighting algorithms are implemented into the KKMC Monte Carlo, which is used to simulate τ-pair production in ee+ collisions, and the TauSpinner program, which is used to reweight events with τ pair produced in pp collisions.

Research Organization:
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., KY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0022350
OSTI ID:
2281447
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2281988
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Vol. 109 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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