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Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY-GUT Models with Lopsided Mass Matrix

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

The tiny neutrino masses measured in the neutrino oscillation experiments can be naturally explained by the supersymmetric see-saw mechanism. If the supersymmetry breaking is mediated by gravity, the see-saw models may predict observable lepton flavor violating effects. In this work, we investigate the lepton flavor violating process μeγ\mu\to e\gamma in the kind of neutrino mass models based on the idea of the ``lopsided'' form of the charged lepton mass matrix. The constraints set by the muon anomalous magnetic moment are taken into account. We find the present models generally predict a much larger branching ratio of μeγ\mu\to e\gamma than the experimental limit. Conversely, this process may give strong constraint on the lepton flavor structure. Following this constraint we then find a new kind of the charged lepton mass matrix. The feature of the structure is that both the elements between the 2-3 and 1-3 generations are ``lopsided''. This structure produces a very small 1-3 mixing and a large 1-2 mixing in the charged lepton sector, which naturally leads to small Br(μeγ)Br(\mu\to e\gamma) and the LMA solution for the solar neutrino problem.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112077,
  title  = {Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY-GUT Models with Lopsided Mass Matrix},
  author = {Xiao-Jun Bi and Yuan-Ben Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112077},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages, 8 figures