LHCb

Prospects for ditauonium discovery at colliders

by Dr 华圣 邵

Asia/Shanghai
Description

报告摘要:

The bound state of two tau leptons, ditauonium TT, is the heaviest and also most compact QED atom, and remains unobserved to date. There are several motivations for its study such as precisely extracting properties of the tau lepton, carrying out novel tests of SM and its basic CPT symmetries, and searching for BSM effects impacting the tau lepton. We will first discuss the spectroscopic properties of ditauonium, including energy levels and decay channels. A systematic survey of search strategies at present and future lepton and hadron colliders will then be provided. The spin-triplet state, ortho-ditauonium, can be observed at a future super tau-charm factory (STCF) via e+e- -> TT_1 -> mu+mu- , where a threshold scan with monochromatized beams can also provide a very precise extraction of the tau lepton mass. Observing pp-> TT_1(mu+mu-)+X  is possible at the LHC by identifying its displaced vertex with a good control of the combinatorial dimuon background. The spin-singlet state, para-ditauonium, will be observable in photon-photon collisions at the FCC-ee via gamma gamma -> TT_0 -> gamma gamma.

 

报告人简介:

Hua-Sheng Shao has been a CNRS researcher at the LPTHE in Paris since 2017. He obtained his PhD at Peking University in 2014 and held a postdoc position at CERN from 2014-2017. His research interests are to understand the physics at particle colliders.