Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs decays at the Compact Linear Collider

Abstract

Lepton flavor violating Higgs decays could appear in scenarios beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In this article, we study the sensitivity of a future Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to such processes, namely, $h\rightarrow e\mu$, $h\rightarrow\tau\mu$, and $h\rightarrow e\tau$. In the absence of any observation, 95\% CL\ upper limits in the region of $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-5}$ could be placed on the branching fractions of these processes, assuming integrated luminosities of $4$\,ab$^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=1.4$ TeV and $5$\,ab$^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=3$ TeV.