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Lepton flavor violating tau decays in type-III seesaw mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In this paper, the lepton flavor violating τP(V)\tau\to \ell P(V) (P,V=π0,η,η,ρ0,ω,ϕP,V= \pi^0, \eta, \eta^{\prime}, \rho^0, \omega, \phi) and τ3\tau\to 3\ell (=e,μ\ell = e, \mu) decays are studied in the framework of the type-III seesaw model, in which new triplet fermions with a zero hypercharge (Y=0) interact with ordinary lepton doublets via Yukawa couplings, and affect tree-level leptonic Z-boson couplings. We investigate the experimental bound from the leptonic Z decay to get contraint on the exsiting parameters space. We predict that the upper limits on the branching ratios of τP(V)\tau\to \ell P(V) and τ3\tau\to 3\ell can reach the experimental current limits.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1553,
  title  = {Lepton flavor violating tau decays in type-III seesaw mechanism},
  author = {Abdesslam Arhrib and Rachid Benbrik and Chuan-Hung Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1553},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure, to match version in press in Phys.Rev.D