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Two-body lepton-flavour-violating decays in a 2HDM with soft family-lepton-number breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-29 v4

Abstract

We evaluate the decays 1±2±γ\ell_1^\pm \to \ell_2^\pm \gamma, Z1+2Z \to \ell_1^+ \ell_2^-, and h1+2h \to \ell_1^+ \ell_2^-, where 1\ell_1 and 2\ell_2 are charged leptons with different flavours and hh is the scalar particle with mass 125.25 GeV, in a two-Higgs-doublet model where all the Yukawa-coupling matrices conserve the lepton flavours but the Majorana mass terms of the right-handed neutrinos break the flavour lepton numbers. We find that (1) the decays 1±2±γ\ell_1^\pm \to \ell_2^\pm \gamma require large Yukawa couplings and very light right-handed neutrinos in order to be visible, (2) the decays Z1+2Z \to \ell_1^+ \ell_2^- will be invisible in all the planned experiments, except in a very restricted range of circumstances, but (3) the decays h1+2h \to \ell_1^+ \ell_2^- may be detected in future experiments for rather relaxed sets of input parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2107.14207,
  title  = {Two-body lepton-flavour-violating decays in a 2HDM with soft family-lepton-number breaking},
  author = {Darius Jurčiukonis and Luis Lavoura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14207},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

57 pages, 19 figures; v2: added references; v3: a general revision of the manuscript; v4 matches published version