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It has been recently known that we can use beams of future lepton colliders, the International Linear Collider (ILC), the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), and the muon collider, for beam dump experiment if a shield and a detector are installed behind the beam dump. We study the prospect of searching for leptophilic gauge bosons (LGBs) in association with \( \textrm{U}{(1)}_{L_e-{L}_{\mu }} \), \( \textrm{U}{(1)}_{L_e-{L}_{\tau }} \), and \( \textrm{U}{(1)}_{L_{\mu }-{L}_{\tau }} \) gauge symmetries at such lepton beam dump experiments. We perform a detailed calculation of the number of the LGB events, taking into account bremsstrahlung and pair-annihilation processes. We show that the lepton beam dump experiments at future lepton colliders can reach parameter regions which have not been covered.
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The work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 16H06490 (TM), 18K03608 (TM), 22H01215 (TM), and 22J21016 (AN).
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Moroi, T., Niki, A. Leptophilic gauge bosons at lepton beam dump experiments. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 16 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)016
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