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Lepton Flavour Violating tau and mu decays induced by scalar leptoquark

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-09-21 v1

Abstract

We show that the scalar leptoquark Yukawa couplings generate a significant lepton flavour violation. We compute the light scalar leptoquark contributions to the branching ratios (Br) of the lepton flavour violating (LFV) decays ijˉj\ell \to \ell_i \ell_j \bar{\ell}_j and γ\ell \rightarrow \ell^{\prime} \gamma with (i,j = e,μ\mu). We discuss the role of the relevant input parameters to these decay rates which are the Yukawa couplings (hah_{a\ell}) with (a=u,c,ta=u,c,t), the light scalar mass MS1M_{S_{1}} and the mixing angle sin2θLQ\sin2\theta_{LQ}. We investigate the experimental limits from (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu, μe\mu-e conversion and πeνe,μνμ\pi \to e \nu_e, \mu \nu_\mu to get constraint on the input parameter space. We predict that the upper limits on the branching ratios of τijˉj\tau \to \ell_i \ell_j \bar{\ell}_j can reach the experimental current limits. We also show that it is possible to accommodate both τijˉj\tau \to \ell_i \ell_j \bar{\ell}_j and τγ\tau \to \ell\gamma branching ratios for certain choices of LQ parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3886,
  title  = {Lepton Flavour Violating tau and mu decays induced by scalar leptoquark},
  author = {Rachid Benbrik and Mohamed Chabab and Gaber Faisel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3886},
  year   = {2010}
}