000002398 001__ 2398 000002398 005__ 20210528195751.0 000002398 037__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-CONF-2021-033 000002398 041__ $$aeng 000002398 088__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-DRAFT-2021-057 000002398 100__ $$aGuney Polat 000002398 245__ $$aTau physics prospects at Belle II 000002398 260__ $$aPHENO 2021$$c2021-05-24 000002398 300__ $$amult. p 000002398 520__ $$aThe Belle II experiment is a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and will operate at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric e+e− collider. The design luminosity of the machine is 8 × 1035 cm−2s−1 and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab−1 of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. From February to July 2018, the machine has completed a commissioning run and main operation of SuperKEKB has started in March 2019. Belle II has a broad τ physics program, in particular in searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violations (LFV and LNV), benefiting from the large cross section of the pair wise τ lepton production in e+e− collisions. We expect that after 5 years of data taking, Belle II will be able to reduce the upper limits on LF and LN violating τ decays by an order of magnitude. Any experimental observation of LFV or LNV in τ decays constitutes an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model, offering the opportunity to probe the underlying New Physics. In this talk we will review the τ lepton physics program of Belle II. 000002398 8560_ $$fdjaffe@bnl.gov 000002398 8564_ $$uhttps://docs.belle2.org/record/2398/files/BELLE2-TALK-CONF-2021-033.pdf