Probing heavy charged fermions at $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider using the Optimal Observable Technique

Abstract

In this work we study the production of color-neutral and singly-charged heavy leptons at the proposed International Linear Collider. We use the optimal observable technique to determine the statistical accuracy to which the coupling of such fermions to the $Z$ gauge boson (vector, axial or chiral) can be measured. We also consider a UV-complete model that contains these particles as well as a dark matter candidate, and consider some observable effects involving both; the correspondence to chargino production in supersymmetric models with heavy sleptons is briefly discussed.

Comments: Derivation of covariance matrix added, dark matter allowed parameter space added, error on significance estimated; Version accepted in JHEP