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Left-Handed Physics is not right for EDMs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-28 v1

Abstract

Heavy New Physics models with lepton flavour-changing interactions are motivated by neutrino masses, and generically induce dipole interactions for leptons, which can be flavour-changing (ljliγl_j\to l_i \gamma) or flavour-diagonal (magnetic and electric dipole moments(edms)). We focus on models with complex couplings, and where the singlet Standard Model leptons ({eRi}\{e_R^i\}) do not interact with the New Physics. In such models, edms are calculated to arise at two loops, despite that complex amplitudes for ljliγl_j\to l_i \gamma appear at one loop. We explore whether the extra loop suppression of edms survives flavour basis rotations that could be induced by flavour-changing NP contributions to the charged lepton mass matrix. We show that one-loop edms vanish in both the mass and Yukawa eigenstate bases.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.19421,
  title  = {Left-Handed Physics is not right for EDMs},
  author = {Marco Ardu and Sacha Davidson and Nicola Valori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19421},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages + appendix, 3 figures

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