Model-independent study for the tau-neutrino electromagnetic dipole moments in $e^+e^- \to \nu_\tau \bar \nu_\tau \gamma$ at the CLIC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential of the CLIC collider to measure the electromagnetic dipole moments of the tau-neutrino in a model-independent manner, considering various energies, luminosities, and systematic uncertainties.

Contribution

It provides new sensitivity estimates for tau-neutrino dipole moments at CLIC, highlighting its advantages over other colliders in probing Standard Model extensions.

Findings

CLIC can significantly improve sensitivity to tau-neutrino dipole moments.

Higher energies and luminosities enhance measurement precision.

Systematic uncertainties impact the sensitivity estimates.

Abstract

We conduce a study to probe the sensitivity of the process $e^+e^-\rightarrow (\gamma, Z) \to \nu_\tau \bar \nu_\tau \gamma$ to the total cross section, the magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment of the tau-neutrino in a model-independent way. For this study, the beam polarization facility at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) along with the typical center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}=380-3000\hspace{0.8mm}GeV$ and integrated luminosities ${\cal L}=10-3000\hspace{0.8mm}fb^{-1}$ is considered. We estimate the sensitivity at the $95\%\hspace{1mm}$ Confidence Level (C.L.) and systematic uncertainties $\delta_{sys}=0, 5, 10\hspace{1mm}\%$ on the dipole moments of the tau-neutrino. It is shown that the process under consideration $e^+e^-\rightarrow (\gamma, Z) \to \nu_\tau \bar \nu_\tau \gamma$ is a good prospect for study the dipole moments of the tau-neutrino at the CLIC. Also, our study illustrates the complementarity between CLIC and other $e^+e^-$ and $pp$ colliders in probing extensions of the Standard Model, and shows that the CLIC at high energy and high luminosity provides a powerful means to sensitivity estimates for the electromagnetic dipole moments of the tau-neutrino.