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The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrino-less $\mu \to e$ coherent conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. About $7 \cdot 10^{17}$ muons, provided by a dedicated muon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-22 G. Pezzullo

We compile information from low-energy observables sensitive to flavor-conserving 4-fermion operators with two or four leptons. Our analysis includes data from e+e- colliders, neutrino scattering on electron or nucleon targets, atomic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Kin Mimouni

We investigate nuclear mu-e conversion in the framework of an effective Lagrangian arising from the inverse seesaw model of neutrino masses. We consider lepton flavour violation interactions that arise from short range (non-photonic) as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 F. Deppisch , T. S. Kosmas , J. W. F. Valle

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

Using an effective lagrangian description we analyze possible new physics contributions to the most relevant muon number violating processes: $\mu \to e \gamma$ and $\mu$--$e$ conversion in nuclei. We identify a general class of models in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Raidal , A. Santamaria

We analyze next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections and uncertainties for coherent $\mu-e$ conversion . The analysis is general but numerical results focus on ${}^{27}\textrm{Al}$, which will be used in the Mu2E experiment. We obtain a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony Bartolotta , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

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

Effective operators provide a model-independent description of physics beyond the stan- dard model that is particularly useful given the absence of any signs of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We recast previous LHC analyses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-14 Yi Cai , Michael A. Schmidt , German Valencia

We study a new supersymmetric mechanism for lepton flavour violation in muon and tau decays and muon -> e conversion in nuclei, within a minimal extension of the MSSM with low-mass heavy singlet neutrinos and sneutrinos. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Amon Ilakovac , Apostolos Pilaftsis

The Mu2e experiment, under construction at Fermilab, will search for the neutrino-less coherent $\mu^-N\rightarrow e^-N$ conversion in the field of a $^{27}$Al nucleus. Such a process violates lepton flavor conservation. About $60\%$ of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-13 Alessandro Maria Ricci

Within framework of the $\mu$ from $\nu$ Supersymmetric Standard Model ($\mu\nu$SSM), three exotic right-handed neutrino superfields induce new sources for lepton-flavor violation. In this work, we investigate muon conversion to electron in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-26 Hai-Bin Zhang , Tai-Fu Feng , Guo-Hui Luo , Zhao-Feng Ge , Shu-Min Zhao

The Mu2e experiment searches for the neutrino-less muon to electron conversion in the field of a nucleus, which is a charged lepton flavor violating process. The goal of the experiment is to reach a single event sensitivity of 2.8 x…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-20 R. Donghia

There are two plans of experiments to search for muon to electron ($\mu$-$e$) conversion at J-PARC, which are called DeeMe and COMET. The $\mu$-$e$ conversion is one of the charged lepton flavor violation processes. The processes are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Teshima

Lepton flavor-violating processes offer interesting possibilities to probe new physics at multi-TeV scale. We discuss those in the framework of effective field theory, emphasizing the role of gluonic operators. Those operators are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-09 Alexey A. Petrov , Dmitry V. Zhuridov

We show that the precise determination of the Tau magnetic properties is possible in the next generation accelerators, specially at B/Flavour factories. We define spin correlation observables suitable to extract the real part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-30 J. Bernabeu , G. A. Gonzalez-Sprinberg , J. Vidal

We study $\mu - e$ conversion with sequential four generations. A large mass for the fourth generation neutrino can enhance the conversion rate by orders of magnitude. We compare constraints obtained from $\mu - e$ conversion using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 N. G. Deshpande , T. Enkhbat , T. Fukuyama , X. -G. He , L. -H. Tsai , K. Tsumura

We consider a class of models predicting new heavy neutral fermionic states, whose mixing with the light neutrinos can be naturally significant and produce observable effects below the threshold for their production. We update the indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 D. Tommasini , G. Barenboim , G. Bernabeu , C. Jarlskog

Models involving large extra spatial dimension(s) have interesting predictions on lepton flavor violating processes. We consider some 5D models which are related to neutrino mass generation or address the fermion masses hierarchy problem.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 We-Fu Chang , John N. Ng

The search for lepton-flavor-violation process e^+e^-\to e\mu in the energy region \sqrt{s}=984 - 1060 MeV with SND detector at VEPP-2M e^+e^- collider is reported. The model independent 90% CL upper limits on the e^+e^-\to e\mu cross…

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