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Correlations between lepton flavour violation at the LHC and type-I seesaw parameters in minimal supergravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-10-21 v1

Abstract

The most general supersymmetric seesaw mechanism has too many parameters to be predictive and thus can not be excluded by any measurements of lepton flavour violating (LFV) processes. We focus on the simplest version of the type-I seesaw mechanism assuming minimal supergravity (mSugra) boundary conditions. We compute branching ratios for the LFV scalar tau decays, τ~2(e,μ)+χ10{\tilde \tau}_2 \to (e,\mu) + \chi^0_1, as well as loop-induced LFV decays at low energy, such as lilj+γl_i \to l_j + \gamma and li3ljl_i \to 3 l_j, exploring their sensitivity to the unknown seesaw parameters. We find some simple, extreme scenarios for the unknown right-handed parameters, where ratios of LFV branching ratios correlate with neutrino oscillation parameters. If the overall mass scale of the left neutrinos and the value of the reactor angle were known, the study of LFV allows, in principle, to extract information about the so far unknown right-handed neutrino parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3270,
  title  = {Correlations between lepton flavour violation at the LHC and type-I seesaw parameters in minimal supergravity},
  author = {A. Villanova del Moral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3270},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Poster at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 4 pages, 16 figures

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