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New physics with the lepton flavor violating decay $\tau\to 3\mu$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-16 v3

Abstract

Lepton flavour violating (LFV) processes are a smoking gun signal of new physics (NP). If the semileptonic BB decay anomalies are indeed due to some NP, such operators can potentially lead to LFV decays involving the second and the third generation leptons, like τ3μ\tau\to 3\mu. In this paper, we explore how far the nature of NP can be unraveled at the next generation BB-factories like Belle-II, provided the decay τ3μ\tau\to 3\mu has been observed. We use four observables with which the differentiation among NP operators may be achieved to a high confidence level. Possible presence of multiple NP operators are also analysed with the Optimal Observable technique. While the analysis can be improved even further if the final state muon polarisations are measured, we present this work as a motivational tool for the experimentalists, as well as a template for the analysis of similar processes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.09218,
  title  = {New physics with the lepton flavor violating decay $\tau\to 3\mu$},
  author = {Zaineb Calcuttawala and Anirban Kundu and Soumitra Nandi and Sunando Kumar Patra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09218},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures. v2: Version accepted in PRD. Only one small paragraph added, virtually identical with v1. v3: Only title of the paper changed, as per the APS style, American spelling. Everything else is completely identical with v2