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We search for lepton flavour violating events (e mu, e tau and mu tau) that could be directly produced in e+e- annihilations, using the full available data sample collected with the OPAL detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL collaboration , G. Abbiendi

We investigate the lepton flavor violation decays of vector mesons in the scenario of the unparticle physics by considering the constraint from $\mu-e$ conversion. In unparticle physics, the predictions of LFV decays of vector mesons depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-10 Ke-Sheng Sun , Tai-Fu Feng , Li-Na Kou , Fei Sun , Tie-Jun Gao , Hai-Bin Zhang

We study if the neutrino mixing parameters suggested by the atmospheric neutrino anomaly imply chemical equilibrium between mu- and tau-flavored leptons in a supernova (SN) core. The initial flavor-conversion rate would indeed be fast if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Hannestad , H. -T. Janka , G. G. Raffelt , G. Sigl

The upcoming Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+\,\rightarrow\,e^+ e^- e^+$ with the aim of a final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays, an improvement over the preceding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-28 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

We study nuclear muon-electron (mu-e) conversion in the general framework of effective Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of the physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor violation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Kosmas , Sergey Kovalenko , Ivan Schmidt

We estimate the sensitivity of Wilson coefficients of the lepton flavor-violating dimension-six operators at the proposed $\mu^+\mu^-$ collider. We compute the signal significance at $\sqrt{s}$ = 3 and 10 TeV, respectively, with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Sukanta Dutta , Purnath Unnikrishnan , Yashasvi

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of negative muons into electrons in the field of an Aluminum nucleus, $\mu^- + Al \to e^- +Al$. Data collection start is planned for the end of 2021. The…

In supersymmetric~SO(10) with large $\tan\beta$ and Yukawa coupling unification $\lambda_t=\lambda_b=\lambda_\tau$, we compute the rates for lepton flavour violating processes. Experiments in progress or foreseen for $\mu\to e\gamma$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Paolo Ciafaloni , Andrea Romanino , Alessandro Strumia

The transition magnetic moment between active and sterile neutrinos is theoretically well-motivated scenario beyond the Standard Model, which can be probed in cosmology, astrophysics, and at terrestrial experiments. In this work, we focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Vedran Brdar , Ying-Ying Li , Samiur R. Mir , Yi-Lin Wang

The discovery of lepton flavour violating interactions will be striking evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Focusing on the three decays $\tau^\mp \to \mu^\pm \mu^\mp \mu^\mp$, $\tau^\mp \to e^\pm \mu^\mp \mu^\mp$ and $\tau^\mp…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-09 Chris Hays , Manimala Mitra , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

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

Lepton flavor violation in the $\tau\mu$ sector would be a clear sign of Beyond Standard Model physics. We employ the SMEFT framework to study the process $e^+e^-\to\tau\mu$ at the ILC and CLIC. We find that the $e^+e^-$ beam polarizations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Pankaj Munbodh

We discuss a supersymmetric inverse seesaw model in which lepton flavour violating decays can be enhanced either by flavour violating slepton contributions or by the non-unitarity of the charged current mixing matrix. As an example we…

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

We investigate the unique potential of a high-energy muon collider to probe lepton-flavor-violating signals arising from physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Low-energy, precision searches for charged lepton-flavor violation (LFV) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Pouya Asadi , Hengameh Bagherian , Katherine Fraser , Samuel Homiller , Qianshu Lu

The observation of lepton flavour violation (LFV) in the charged lepton sector would be an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), and thus, it is the channel of choice for many BSM searches. LFV searches in muon decays…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-23 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

We derive constraints on the mixing of heavy right-handed neutrinos with the SM fields in the most general Seesaw scenario where the heavy neutrinos are integrated out. Among the electroweak and flavour observables included in the global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-24 Josu Hernandez-Garcia

In the work presented here, we have studied the impact of right handed neutrinos, which are introduced to account for the evidence of neutrino masses, on charged lepton flavour violating observables. In particular, we have focused on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-02 V. De Romeri , M. J. Herrero , X. Marcano , F. Scarcella

We present a new analysis of non-universal and flavor changing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) in \nu_e e or \bar{\nu}_e e scattering. Our global analysis of these process includes all relevant experiments, such as the most recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Barranco , O. G. Miranda , C. A. Moura , J. W. F. Valle

After being produced as electron neutrinos ($\nu_e$), solar neutrinos partially change their flavor to $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_{\tau}$ en route to Earth. Although the flavor ratio of the $\nu_e$ flux to the total flux has been well measured,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-20 Vedran Brdar , Xun-Jie Xu

Taking the supersymmetric inverse seesaw mechanism as the explanation for neutrino oscillation data, we investigate charged lepton flavor violation in radiative and 3-body lepton decays as well as in neutrinoless $\mu-e$ conversion in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Abada , M. E. Krauss , W. Porod , F. Staub , A. Vicente , C. Weiland