Left-Handed Physics is not right for EDMs
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 () or flavour-diagonal (magnetic and electric dipole moments(edms)). We focus on models with complex couplings, and where the singlet Standard Model leptons () do not interact with the New Physics. In such models, edms are calculated to arise at two loops, despite that complex amplitudes for 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.
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