000002677 001__ 2677 000002677 005__ 20210910192438.0 000002677 037__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-CONF-2021-113 000002677 041__ $$aeng 000002677 088__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-DRAFT-2021-110 000002677 100__ $$aMarcela Garcia Hernandez 000002677 245__ $$aTau physics propsects at Belle II 000002677 260__ $$aXXVIIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2021)$$c2021-08-23 000002677 300__ $$amult. p 000002677 520__ $$aThe Belle II experiment is a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and will operate at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric e+e− collider. The design luminosity of the machine is 6.5×10^{35} cm^{−2}s^{−1} and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab−1 of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. From February to July 2018, the machine has completed a commissioning run and main operation of SuperKEKB has started in March2019. Belle II has a broad τ physics program, in particular in searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violations (LFV and LNV), benefiting from the large cross section of the pair wise τ lepton production in e+e− collisions. We expect that after 5 years of data taking, Belle II will be able to reduce the upper limits on LF and LN violating τ decays by an order of magnitude. Any experimental observation of LFV or LNV in τ decays constitutes an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model, offering the opportunity to probe the underlying New Physics. In this talk we will review the τ lepton physics program of Belle II. 000002677 8560_ $$fdjaffe@bnl.gov 000002677 8564_ $$uhttps://docs.belle2.org/record/2677/files/BELLE2-TALK-CONF-2021-113.pdf