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Lepton Universality, Rare Decays and Split Fermions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We investigate the constraint on the split fermions in extra dimensions by considering the universality of WW leptonic decays WliνiW\to l_i \nu_i, the charged lepton decays li\raljνiνˉjl_i \ra l_j\nu_i\bar{\nu}_j, and the lepton flavor violating process li\ralˉjlklhl_i\ra \bar{l}_j l_k l_h where li=e,μl_i= e,\mu or τ\tau. For the Standard Model (SM) background of W\raliνiW\ra l_i \nu_i, we extended the one loop quantum correction to include effects of order ml2/MW2m_l^2/M_W^2 and the Higgs mass dependence. We find that in general the split fermion scenarios give rise to a 4D effective Yukawa matrix of the Kaluza-Klein Higgs bosons is misaligned with respect to the fermion mass matrix. This holds true also for gauge bosons as well. This leads to decays of li\raljˉlklhl_i\ra \bar{l_j}l_k l_h at tree level and muonium antimuonium conversion. Interestingly the leptonic universality of WW boson decays are not affected at this level.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0203212,
  title  = {Lepton Universality, Rare Decays and Split Fermions},
  author = {We-Fu Chang and I-Lin Ho and John N. Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0203212},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages, 3 figures, expanded version,added references, Feynman rules included

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