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Completely general bounds on Non-Unitary leptonic mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-24 v1

Abstract

We derive constraints on the mixing of heavy right-handed neutrinos with the SM fields in the most general Seesaw scenario where the heavy neutrinos are integrated out. Among the electroweak and flavour observables included in the global fit, μeγ\mu\rightarrow e\gamma sets the present strongest bound on the additional neutrino mixing, while in the future it will be dominated by μe\mu-e conversion in nuclei. Increasing its sensitivity in future experiments could probe Non-Unitarity in Lepton Flavour Violating processes. Nevertheless, in order to determine completely model-independent constraints, we provide a second set of bounds derived through a global fit that does not include LFV observables. These indirect constraints on the off-diagonal elements come from the diagonal bounds through the Schwarz inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1611.07584,
  title  = {Completely general bounds on Non-Unitary leptonic mixing},
  author = {Josu Hernandez-Garcia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07584},
  year   = {2016}
}

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