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Lepton Flavor Violation in the Scotogenic Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-02-04 v2

Abstract

We investigate lepton flavor violation in the scotogenic model proposed by Ma in which neutrinos acquire non-zero masses at the 1-loop level. Although some works exist in this direction, they have mainly focused on the radiative decay αβγ\ell_\alpha \to \ell_\beta \gamma. Motivated by the promising new projects involving other low-energy processes, we derive complete analytical expressions for α3β\ell_\alpha \to 3 \, \ell_\beta and μe\mu-e conversion in nuclei, and numerically study their impact on the phenomenology. We will show that these processes can actually have rates larger than the one for αβγ\ell_\alpha \to \ell_\beta \gamma, thus providing more stringent constraints and better experimental perspectives.

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@article{arxiv.1312.2840,
  title  = {Lepton Flavor Violation in the Scotogenic Model},
  author = {Takashi Toma and Avelino Vicente},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2840},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

28 pages, 16 figures. v2: New references and improved discussion of the non-degenerate scenario. Version to appear in JHEP

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