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Lepton flavor violation at linear collider experiments is discussed. We show that detectable lepton flavor violation could occur through scalar lepton pair production and decay in the supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory in spite of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Masahide Hirouchi , Minoru Tanaka

In this work the following lepton flavor violating $\tau$ and $\mu$ decays are studied: $\tau^- \to \mu^- \mu^- \mu^+$, $\tau^- \to e^- e^- e^+$, $\mu^- \to e^- e^- e^+$, $\tau^- \to \mu^- \gamma$, $\tau^- \to e^- \gamma$ and $\mu^- \to e^-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Arganda , M. J. Herrero

Data in $B$-meson decays indicate violations of lepton flavour universality, thereby raising the question about such phenomena in the charm sector. We perform a model-independent analysis of NP contributions in (semi)-leptonic decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Robert Fleischer , Ruben Jaarsma , Gabriël Koole

The evidence for Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) violation in semileptonic $B$-decays has been rising over the past few years. Relying on generic effective field theory (EFT) results, it has been shown that models addressing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-25 Lukas Allwicher , Nudžeim Selimović

Nucleon decays into a lepton and two pseudoscalar mesons represent key channels for probing baryon number violation, complementing conventional two-body modes. In this Letter, we model-independently correlate two- and three-body processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Wei-Qi Fan , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

The gauge-invariant operators up to dimension six in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale are classified. There are 70 Hermitian dimension-five and 3631 Hermitian dimension-six operators that conserve baryon and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-21 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Peter Stoffer

We present the preliminary results from the search of the non-conservation of lepton flavor number in the decay of a $\tau$ to a lighter mass lepton and a pseudo-scalar meson, performed using $e^+e^- \to \tau^+\tau^-$ events collected at a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The BABAR Collaboration , B. Aubert

Charged lepton-flavor violation is a null-test frontier of the Standard Model and a direct probe of physics beyond it. We present a global effective field theory (EFT) analysis across FCC-ee, ILC, CLIC, HL-LHC, HE-LHC, and muon colliders at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Nicolás Viaux M

Hints of flavor violation at both charged and neutral current decays of mesons have been observed in experiments such as LHCb, Belle, and BaBar. The anomalies in the result can be addressed in the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Nilanjana Kumar

We investigate flavour violating four Fermi Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators of dimension-six that can be probed via $tc ~(\bar{t}c+t\bar{c})$ production at the multi-TeV muon collider. We study different FCNC and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Soumitra Nandi , Abhik Sarkar

We analyse how $U(3)^5$ and $U(2)^5$ flavour symmetries act on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, providing an organising principle to classify the large number of dimension-six operators involving fermion fields. A detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Darius A. Faroughy , Gino Isidori , Felix Wilsch , Kei Yamamoto

The SU(3) flavour symmetry breaking expansion in up, down and strange quark masses is extended from hadron masses to meson decay constants. This allows a determination of the ratio of kaon to pion decay constants in QCD. Furthermore when…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-22 V. G. Bornyakov , R. Horsley , Y. Nakamura , H. Perlt , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , A. Schiller , H. Stüben , J. M. Zanotti

The lepton-flavour-violating decay K_L --> e \mu is studied in detail within the context of SU(2)_R x SU(2)_L x U(1)_(B-L) models, which include heavy Majorana neutrinos. Particular attention is paid to the gauge independence of this decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Zoltan Gagyi-Palffy , Apostolos Pilaftsis , Karl Schilcher

In the framework of the seesaw models with triplets of fermions, we evaluate the decay rates of $\mu \to e \gamma$ and $\tau \to l \gamma$ transitions. We show that although, due to neutrino mass constraints, those rates are in general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Abada , C. Biggio , F. Bonnet , M. B. Gavela , T. Hambye

We reconsider the role that the possible detection of lepton flavour violating (LFV) decays of supersymmetric particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can play in helping reconstruct the underlying neutrino mass generation mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-06 J. N. Esteves , M. Hirsch , W. Porod , J. C. Romao , J. W. F. Valle , A. Villanova del Moral

We study the lepton flavor violating process, $e+ T \to \tau +T'$, at a few GeV. This process can be studied by experiments directing GeV scale electron or positron beams on internal or fixed targets. We study the effects of some low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 Wei Liao , Xiao-Hong Wu

We present a systematic survey of possible short-distance new-physics effects in (semi)leptonic charged- and neutral-current charmed meson decays. Using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to analyze the most relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Javier Fuentes-Martin , Admir Greljo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Jose David Ruiz-Alvarez

We study Lepton Flavour Violating hadron decays of the tau lepton within the Simplest Little Higgs model. Namely we consider $\tau \rightarrow \mu (P, V, PP)$ where $P$ and $V$ are short for a pseudoscalar and a vector meson. We find that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-25 A. Lami , J. Portoles , P. Roig

In this paper we study the Lepton Flavor Violating $Z$ boson decays $Z \to \tau \mu$ and $Z \to \tau e$ in the context of low scale seesaw models with new heavy Majorana neutrinos whose masses could be reachable at the LHC. Our computations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 V. De Romeri , M. J. Herrero , X. Marcano , F. Scarcella

We study the five-body decays $\mu^- \to e^- e^+ e^- \nu_{\mu} \bar{\nu}_{e}$ and $\tau^- \to \ell^- \ell'^+\ell'^-\nu_{\tau}\bar{\nu}_{\ell}$ for $\ell, \ell'=e, \mu$ within the Standard Model (SM) and in a general effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-03 A. Flores-Tlalpa , G. López Castro , P. Roig