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Search for charged lepton flavor violation in $J/\psi$ decays at BESIII

Xudong Yu

SciPost Phys. Proc. 17, 010 (2025) · published 23 July 2025

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17th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics

Abstract

In the Standard Model, charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is heavily suppressed by tiny neutrino mass, while many theoretical models can enhance CLFV effects up to a detectable level. The observation of any CLFV process would be a clear signal of new physics beyond SM. BESIII experiment collected 10 billion $J/\psi$ data and searched for CLFV processes $J/\psi\to e\tau$ and $e\mu$. The upper limits at the 90\% confidence level are determined to be $\mathcal{B}(J/\psi\to e\tau)<7.5× 10^{-8}$ and $\mathcal{B}(J/\psi\to e\mu)<4.5× 10^{-9}$, respectively, which are the most stringent constraints in the heavy quarkonium system.


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