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We explain the ATOMKI anomaly with a very light $Z'$ state that features non-anomalous and non-flavour-universal vector and axial-vector couplings to all leptons. This $Z'$ comes from a theoretical framework with a spontaneously broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Rikard Enberg , Yaşar Hiçyılmaz , Stefano Moretti , Carlos Pérez de los Heros , Harri Waltari

Searches for lepton flavor violation (LFV) stand at the forefront of experimental particle physics research, offering a sensitive probe to many scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model. The high proton-proton collision energy and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-20 Jian Wang

While the LHC has not directly observed any new particle so far, experimental results from LHCb, BELLE and BABAR point towards the violation of lepton flavour universality in $b\to s\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ and $b\to c\ell\nu$. In this context,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Dario Müller

We propose a new channel for probing charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV): the decay of true muonium into a lepton pair of different flavor, $(\mu^+ \mu^-) \to \mu^\pm e^\mp$. This purely leptonic two-body decay provides a clean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Ryotaro Minato , Akira Sato , Ryosuke Suda , Masato Yamanaka

We study a lepton flavor violating $\mu N \to \tau X$ reaction in deep inelastic scattering region in supersymmetric models. The contribution from the Higgs boson mediation could be important for this reaction. For that case, the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shinya Kanemura , Yoshitaka Kuno , Masahiro Kuze , Toshihiko Ota

We revisit a class of Z' explanations of the anomalies found by the LHCb collaboration in $B$ decays, and show that the scenario is tightly constrained by a combination of constraints: (i) LHC searches for di-muon resonances, (ii)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-02 Ben Allanach , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Alessandro Strumia , Sichun Sun

The accurate prediction of the neutrino beam produced in muon decays and the absence of opposite helicity contamination for a particular neutrino flavor make a future neutrino factory the ideal place to look for the lepton flavor violating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bueno , M. Campanelli , M. Laveder , J. Rico , A. Rubbia

We investigate simplified models involving an inert scalar triplet and vector-like leptons that can account for the muon $g-2$ anomaly. These simplified scenarios are embedded in a model that features W' and Z' bosons, which are subject to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 A. S. de Jesus , S. Kovalenko , F. S. Queiroz , K. Sinha , C. Siqueira

We address the presently reported significant flavor anomalies in the $K$ and $B$ meson systems such as the CP violating Kaon decay ($\epsilon'/\epsilon$) and lepton-flavor universality violation in $B$ meson decays ($R_{K^{(*)}},$ and also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Shinya Matsuzaki , Kenji Nishiwaki , Kei Yamamoto

An important prediction of the standard model is the universality of the gauge interactions of the three generation of charged leptons. Violation of this universality would be a clean evidence of new physics (NP) beyond the standard model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Alakabha Datta

We investigate the experimental bounds on the Flavor-Violating (FV) couplings of the $Z$ boson to the charged leptons. In addition to the direct LHC searches for FV $Z$ decays to leptons, we investigate indirect bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh , Amine Ahriche , Nobuchika Okada

The observation of neutrino oscillation as well as the recent experimental result on lepton flavor universality (LFU) violation in $B$ meson decays are indications of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Many theoretical models, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Soumya C. , R. Mohanta

The fundamental description of nature, beyond the Standard Model (SM), may include heavy neutrinos that mix and thus allow processes in which lepton flavor is not preserved. We investigate the impact of charged currents that couple heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-24 H. Novales-Sánchez , M. Salinas , J. J. Toscano

The study for lepton flavor violation combined with the neutrino oscillation may provide more information about the lepton flavor structure of the grand unified theory. In this paper, we study two lepton flavor violation processes, $\tau\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiao-Jun Bi , Yuan-Ben Dai , Xiao-Yuan Qi

The Standard Model predicts that the Higgs boson couples to the fermions in the mass eigenstates. We consider the effects of lepton flavor violating (LFV) $Z$ boson couplings in the case where the Higgs boson has flavor non-diagonal Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Toru Goto , Ryuichiro Kitano , Shingo Mori

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

New neutral heavy gauge bosons ($Z^\prime$) are predicted within many extensions of the Standard Model. While in case they couple to quarks the LHC bounds are very stringent, leptophilic $Z^\prime$ bosons (even with sizable couplings) can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrzej J. Buras , Andreas Crivellin , Fiona Kirk , Claudio Andrea Manzari , Marc Montull

In neutrino physics, a class of models with local or global family symmetries may be invoked, and then a flavon field is needed to realize the full neutrino mixing. This flavon may shed light on the long-standing muon $g-2$ puzzle. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Shuyang Han , Zhaofeng Kang

A mechanism has been suggested recently to generate the neutrino mass out of a dimension-seven operator. This is expected to relieve the tension between the occurrence of a tiny neutrino mass and the observability of other physics effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Yi Liao , Guo-Zhu Ning , Lu Ren

We propose a simple model of spontaneous lepton number violation with potentially large flavor violating decays, including the possibility that majoron emitting decays, such as $\mu \to e \, J$, saturate the experimental bounds. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Pablo Escribano , Martin Hirsch , Jacopo Nava , Avelino Vicente