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Within the Standard Model, in spite of neutrino oscillations, the flavor of charged leptons is conserved in very good approximation, and therefore charged Lepton Flavor Violation is expected to be unobservable. On the other hand, most new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-20 Francesco Renga

Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations it is known that lepton flavour is not conserved. Lepton flavour violating processes in the charged lepton sector have so far however eluded detection; as they are heavily suppressed in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-02-11 Niklaus Berger

We explore the possibilities for extending the sensitivity of current searches for the charged lepton flavor violating decays $\mu\ -> e \gamma$ and $\mu\ -> eee$. A future facility such as Project X at Fermilab could provide a much more…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-01 Chih-hsiang. Cheng , Bertrand Echenard , David G. Hitlin

Exploring the leptonic sector in frontier experiments is more of importance nowadays, since the conservation of lepton flavor and total lepton number are not guaranteed anymore in the Standard Model after the discovery of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-25 Beomki Yeo , Yoshitaka Kuno , MyeongJae Lee , Kai Zuber

The observation of lepton flavour violation (LFV) in interactions involving charged leptons would be an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Given that muons can be produced at high intensities,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-25 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

The MEG Experiment searches for a lepton flavour violating decay, $\mu^+\to\mathrm{e}^+\gamma $, with a branching-ratio sensitivity of $10^{-13}$ in order to explore the parameter region predicted by many theoretical models beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-14 Hajime Nishiguchi

These proceedings review the status of present and future bounds on muonic lepton flavour violating transitions in the context of an effective-field theory defined below the electroweak scale. A specific focus is set on the phenomenology of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Giovanni Marco Pruna

Charged-lepton flavour-violating (cLFV) processes offer deep probes for new physics with discovery sensitivity to a broad array of new physics models - SUSY, Higgs Doublets, Extra Dimensions, and, particularly, models explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-18 A. Baldini , D. Glenzinski , F Kapusta , Y. Kuno , M. Lancaster , J. Miller , S. Miscetti , T. Mori , A. Papa , A. Schoning , Y. Uchida

We consider charged lepton flavor violating transitions mediated by the diphoton effective interactions $\ell_i\ell_j\gamma\gamma$ and explore which processes can probe them better. Our analysis includes single and double radiative decays,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-13 Fabiola Fortuna , Xabier Marcano , Marcela Marín , Pablo Roig

Searches for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) offer deep probes for a range of new physics scenarios, such as super-symmetric models, theories involving scalar leptoquarks or additional Higgs doublets, and models explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-15 Sophie Middleton , MyeongJae Lee , Yoshihiro Seiya

MECO will search for direct evidence of muon and electron flavor violation in the decay of muons in Coulomb bound states via coherent recoil of the nucleus and decay electron. The expected sensitivity to the $\mu^{-} {\rm N} \to e^{-} +…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 James L. Popp

The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institute in the years 2009--2013 to test the violation of the lepton flavour conservation law, which originates from an accidental symmetry that the Standard Model of elementary particle…

This reports summarizes the activities of the Charged Lepton Flavor Violation group of the 2022 Community Summer Study. Charged lepton flavor violating reactions provide unique information on the scale and dynamics of flavor generation, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-02 Sacha Davidson , Bertrand Echenard , Robert H. Bernstein , Julian Heeck , David G. Hitlin

Lepton flavor violation (LFV) offers a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, particularly in models addressing neutrino masses and the baryon asymmetry of the universe. In this study, we investigate LFV processes within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Chengcheng Han , Yijun Han , Sihui Huang , Zhanhong Lei

We explore the potential of the Mu2e experiment to probe the lepton-flavor-violating process $\mu^- e^- \to e^- e^-$ in a muonic atom within a simplified axion-like particle (ALP) framework featuring flavor-violating $e$-$\mu$ couplings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Girish Kumar , Alexey A. Petrov

We examine the muon's electric dipole moment $\dmu$ from a variety of theoretical perspectives. We point out that the reported deviation in the muon's g-2 can be due partially or even entirely to a new physics contribution to the muon's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev , Yael Shadmi

If sleptons are produced at LEP II or the Next Linear Collider, lepton flavor violation can be probed at a level significantly below the current bounds from rare processes, such as $\mu \to e\gamma$. Polarizable $e^-$ beams and the $e^-e^-$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jonathan L. Feng

The upcoming Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^- e^+$ with an unprecedented final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays by making use of an innovative…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-04 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

The lepton flavor violation $\mu\to e\gamma$, $\tau\to e\gamma$, $\tau\to\mu\gamma$, $\mu\to3e$, $\tau\to3e$, $\tau\to3\mu$ and $\mu-e$ conversion in Al and Ti are studied in both the Altarelli-Feruglio $A_4$ model and the $S_4$ model of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Gui-Jun Ding , Jia-Feng Liu

We study muonium-antimuonium conversion and mu+ e- to mu- e+ scattering within two different lepton-flavor-violating models with heavy neutrinos: model I is a typical seesaw that violates lepton number as well as flavor; model II has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gorazd Cvetic , Claudio O. Dib , C. S. Kim , J. D. Kim