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Muon Flavor Violation in Two Higgs Doublet Model with Extra Yukawa Couplings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-04 v2

Abstract

The new round of experiments, MEG II, COMET/Mu2e, and Mu3e, would soon start to push the μeγ\mu \to e\gamma, μNeN\mu N \to eN conversion, and μ3e\mu \to 3e frontier, while Belle II would probe τμγ\tau \to \mu\gamma and τ3μ\tau \to 3\mu. In the general two Higgs doublet model with extra Yukawa couplings, we show that all these processes probe the lepton flavor violating (LFV) dipole transition that arises from the two loop mechanism, with scalar-induced contact terms subdominant. This is because existing data suggest the extra Yukawa couplings ρμe,ρeeλe\rho_{\mu e},\, \rho_{ee} \lesssim \lambda_e, while ρτμ,ρττλτ\rho_{\tau\mu},\, \rho_{\tau\tau} \lesssim \lambda_\tau and ρttλt\rho_{tt} \lesssim \lambda_t, with λi\lambda_i the usual Yukawa coupling of the Standard Model (SM), where ρμeρtt\rho_{\mu e}\rho_{tt} and ρτμρtt\rho_{\tau\mu}\rho_{tt} enter the μeγ\mu e\gamma and τμγ\tau\mu\gamma two loop amplitudes, respectively. With the BsμμB_s \to \mu\mu decay rate basically consistent with SM expectation, together with the BsB_s mixing constraint, we show that BsττB_s \to \tau\tau would also be consistent with SM, while BsτμB_s \to \tau\mu and BKτμB \to K\tau\mu decays would be out of reach of projected sensitivities, in strong contrast with some models motivated by the B anomalies.

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@article{arxiv.2008.08469,
  title  = {Muon Flavor Violation in Two Higgs Doublet Model with Extra Yukawa Couplings},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Girish Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08469},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures. Added new references and fixed typos to conform to the published version