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Is the lepton flavour changing observable in $Z \to \mu^\pm + \tau^\mp$ decay?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Neutrino oscillations as suggested by the recent Super-Kamiokande result imply that lepton numbers could be violated, and Zμ+τ±\to \mu^{\mp} +\tau^{\pm} is a typical manifestation. We point out that for this mode, the GIM cancelation is much milder with only a logarithmic behavior log(m3/m2)\log (m_3 /m_2) where mjm_j is the neutrino mass. The ratio Γ\Gamma(Z μ+τ±)/Γ(\to \mu^{\mp} + \tau^{\pm})/\Gamma(Z μ+μ+) \to \mu^{-} + \mu^{+}) could be about 10510610^{-5}-10^{-6}, in sharp contrast with the vanishingly small rate τ±μ±+γ\tau^{\pm}\to \mu^{\pm} + \gamma strongly suppressed by a quadratic power (m32m22)/MW2(m_3^2-m_2^2)/ M_{\rm W}^2. Being complementary to neutrino oscillation experiments, measurements of Zμ+τ±\to \mu^{\mp} +\tau^{\pm} -- which are at hand with the present colliders -- would give one more constraint to the lepton mixing angle sin2θjk\sin 2\theta_{jk} and the neutrino mass ratio mj/mkm_j/m_k.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809322,
  title  = {Is the lepton flavour changing observable in $Z \to \mu^\pm + \tau^\mp$ decay?},
  author = {X. Y. Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809322},
  year   = {2007}
}

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