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Charged Lepton Radiative and B-meson Double Radiative Decays in Models with Universal Extra Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This paper addresses the role of Large Extra Dimensions in some flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) driven processes. In particular we have investigated radiative decays of charged leptons within models with only one universal extra dimension (UED). Loop contributions with internal fermions and scalars of comparable mass would seem to yield sizeable amplitudes, since the generic quadratic suppression factor is changed into a linear one. Such scenarios can in principle be realized in models with universal extra space dimensions. Yet our calculations of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) contributions to these radiative decays show this expected relative enhancement to disappear due to the near mass degeneracy of the heavy neutrinos from the different generations. In this paper we estimate also the UED contribution to the Bs,dγγB_{s,d}\to\gamma\gamma rate and find an enhancement of 3% and 6%, respectively, over the SM prediction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0603160,
  title  = {Charged Lepton Radiative and B-meson Double Radiative Decays in Models with Universal Extra Dimensions},
  author = {Ikaros I. Bigi and George Chiladze and Gela Devidze and Christoph Hanhart and Akaki Lipartelian and Ulf-G. Meissner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0603160},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Annual report of Tbilisi State University