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Naturally Large Radiative Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs Decay Mediated by Lepton-flavored Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-20 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In the standard model (SM), lepton flavor violating (LFV) Higgs decay is absent at renormalizable level and thus it is a good probe to new physics. In this article we study a type of new physics that could lead to large LFV Higgs decay, i.e., a lepton-flavored dark matter (DM) model which is specified by a Majorana DM and scalar lepton mediators. Different from other similar models with similar setup, we introduce both left-handed and right-handed scalar leptons. They allow large LFV Higgs decay and thus may explain the tentative Br(h\raτμ)1%(h\ra\tau\mu)\sim1\% experimental results from the LHC. In particular, we find that the stringent bound from τ\raμγ\tau\ra\mu\gamma can be naturally evaded. One reason, among others, is a large chirality violation in the mediator sector. Aspects of relic density and especially radiative direct detection of the leptonic DM are also investigated, stressing the difference from previous lepton-flavored DM models.

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@article{arxiv.1510.00100,
  title  = {Naturally Large Radiative Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs Decay Mediated by Lepton-flavored Dark Matter},
  author = {Seungwon Baek and Zhaofeng Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00100},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages. JHEP version, fixing typos and now using a consistent notation