Han, TaoLewis, Ian M.Sher, Marc2016-07-272016-07-272010-03-10Han, T., Lewis, I. & Sher, M., μτ production at hadron colliders, J. High Energ. Phys. (2010) 2010: 90. doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2010)090https://hdl.handle.net/1808/21183Motivated by large νμ−ντ flavor mixing, we consider μτ production at hadron colliders via dimension-6 effective operators, which can be attributed to new physics in the flavor sector at a higher scale Λ. Current bounds on many of these operators from low energy experiments are very weak or nonexistent, and they may lead to clean μ+τ− and μ−τ+ signals at hadron colliders. At the Tevatron with 8 fb−1, one can exceed current bounds for most operators, with most 2σ sensitivities being in the 6 − 24 TeV range. We find that at the LHC with 1 fb−1 (100 fb−1) integrated luminosity, one can reach a 2σ sensitivity for Λ ∼ 3−10 TeV (Λ ∼ 6−21 TeV), depending on the Lorentz structure of the operator. For some operators, an improvement of several orders of magnitude in sensitivity can be obtained with only a few tens of pb−1 at the LHC.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Beyond standard modelHadronic collidersArticle10.1007/JHEP03(2010)090openAccess