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We report on the status of charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) experiments with muons. We focus on the three "golden channels": $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \gamma$, $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-} e^{+}$ and $\mu^{-} N \rightarrow e^{-}…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-09 Dylan Palo

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

Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (cLFV) processes like $ \mu \rightarrow e \gamma $ are rare decay processes, that are another signature of physics beyond Standard Model (BSM). These processes have been studied in various models, that could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-03 Kalpana Bora , Gayatri Ghosh

We extend the effective theory of Minimal Lepton Flavor Violation (MLFV) by including four-lepton operators. We compute the rates for mu -> 3 e and tau -> 3 ell decays and point out several new ways to test the hypothesis of MLFV. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-05 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Benjamin Grinstein

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 Mu2e and COMET experiments are expected to improve existing limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by roughly four orders of magnitude. $\mu\rightarrow e$ conversion experiments are typically optimized for electrons produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-08 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule

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

Charged-lepton flavor violation (cLFV) is one of the most powerful probes for New Physics (NP). Since lepton flavor conservation is an accidental symmetry in the Standard Model (SM), it is naturally violated in many NP models, with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-31 M. Aoki , A. M. Baldini , R. H. Bernstein , C. Carloganu , S. Mihara , S. Miscetti , T. Mori , W. Ootani , F. Renga , S. Ritt , A. Schoening

Flavor-changing signatures of Lorentz and CPT violation involving muon-electron conversions in muonic atoms are studied using effective field theory. Constraints on coefficients for Lorentz violation at parts in $10^{-12}$ GeV$^{-1}$ for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 Alan Kostelecky , W. P. McNulty , E. Passemar , N. Sherrill

The observation of any charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) process would be a clear signal of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Various decay modes, including lepton ($\mu, \tau$) decays, pseudoscalar meson ($K,\pi$) decays, vector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-22 Jingshu Li , Zhengyun You

A search for charged-lepton flavour violation (CLFV) in top quark (t) production and decay is presented. The search uses proton-proton collision data corresponding to 138 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the CMS experiment at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-08 CMS Collaboration

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

The coherent muon-electron conversion rates in various nuclei are calculated for general lepton flavor violating interactions. We solve the Dirac equations numerically for the initial state muon and the final state electron in the Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ryuichiro Kitano , Masafumi Koike , Yasuhiro Okada

We calculate lepton flavor violating (LFV) Z decays Z \to {{e_i^\pm}}e_j^\mp (i, j = e, \mu, \tau ; i\neq j) in the Zee model keeping in view the radiative leptonic decays e_i\to e_j\gamma (i = \mu, \tau ; j = e, \mu ; i\neq j), \mu decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ambar Ghosal , Yoshio Koide , Hideo Fusaoka

Lepton flavor violation (LFV), observed conclusively in neutrino oscillations, remains a pivotal area of investigation due to its absence in the Standard Model (SM). Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics explores charged lepton flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jia Liu , Muyuan Song , Haohao Zhang

We study the three body lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays $\mu^- \to e^- e^+ e^-$, $\tau^- \to l_i^- l_j^+ l_j^-$ and the semileptonic decay $\tau \to \mu \phi $ in the flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) mediated $Z$ boson model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Mohanta

A search for the charged-lepton-flavor-violating process $Z\rightarrow e\mu$ is presented, using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV $pp$ collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. An excess in the $e\mu$ invariant mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-30 ATLAS Collaboration

We present an illustrative discussion of the physics potential of $\mu^-$- $e^+$ conversion. We point out that this process, although much less frequently studied than the related but much more popular processes of $\mu^-$- $e^-$ conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-25 Tanja Geib , Alexander Merle , Kai Zuber

Lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes via four-Fermi contact interactions at future International Linear Collider (ILC) are studied. The effective Lagrangian is composed of six-operators, and the LFV effects on both $e^+ e^- \to e^+…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Gi-Chol Cho , Hanako Shimo

New mu-to-e conversion searches aim to advance limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by four orders of magnitude. By considering P and CP selection rules and the structure of possible charge and current densities, we show that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule , Ken McElvain , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf