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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02721 |
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- Majorana neutrinos may have transitional dipole moments, which violate lepton number as well as lepton flavour. We estimate the sensitivity of future colliders to the electron-muon neutrino dipole moment, $λ_{eμ}$, by considering same-sign dilepton final states. We find that hadron colliders, even the proposed FCC-hh, are sensitive only to $|λ_{eμ}|\gtrsim 10^{-9}μ_B$ (with $μ_B$ the Bohr magneton), a value two-three orders of magnitude larger than current bounds from astrophysics and low-energy neutrino-scattering experiments. In the case of a future muon collider, we show that the sensitivity varies from $|λ_{eμ}|\sim 5\cdot 10^{-9}μ_B$ for energy $\sqrt{s}\simeq 3$ TeV, to $\sim 10^{-12}μ_B$ for $\sqrt{s}\simeq 50$ TeV, matching the current laboratory bounds for $\sqrt{s}\simeq 30$ TeV. The singular advantage of the muon collider signal would be a direct, clean identification of lepton number and flavour violation. We also show that a muon collider would improve by orders of magnitude the direct bounds on $m_{eμ}$ and $m_{μμ}$, two of the entries of the Majorana neutrino mass matrix. These bounds could be as strong as $\sim 50$ keV, still far above the neutrino mass scale.