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Lepton flavour violating Higgs and tau to mu gamma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-06-15 v3

Abstract

We update phenomenological constraints on a Two Higgs Doublet Model with lepton flavour non-conserving Yukawa couplings. We review that tanβ\tan \beta is ambiguous in such "Type III" models, and define it from the τ\tau Yukawa coupling. The neutral scalars ϕ\phi could be searched for at hadron colliders in ϕτμˉ \phi \to \tau \bar{\mu}, and are constrained by the rare decay τμγ\tau \to \mu \gamma. The Feynman diagrams for the collider process, with Higgs production via gluon fusion, are similar to the two-loop "Barr-Zee" diagrams which contribute to τμγ\tau \to \mu \gamma. Some "tuning" is required to obtain a collider cross-section of order the Standard Model expectation for σ(gghSMτ+τ)\sigma (gg \to h_{SM} \to \tau^+ \tau^-), while agreeing with the current bound from τμγ\tau \to \mu \gamma.

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@article{arxiv.1001.0434,
  title  = {Lepton flavour violating Higgs and tau to mu gamma},
  author = {Sacha Davidson and Gerald Grenier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0434},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 5 figures, version accepted for publication