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In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

Motivated by flavour symmetry models, we construct theories based on a low-energy limit featuring lepton flavour triality that have the flavour-violating decays $\tau^\pm \to \mu^\pm \mu^\pm e^\mp$ and $\tau^\pm \to e^\pm e^\pm \mu^\mp$ as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-15 Innes Bigaran , Xiao-Gang He , Michael A. Schmidt , German Valencia , Raymond Volkas

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

Analyticity and unitarity constrain certain classe of new physics models by linking flavor-conserving and flavor-violating four-fermion interactions. In this work, we explore how these theoretical relations impact flavor-violating rare top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Zev Balme , Christopher M. Donohue , Stefania Gori , Siddharth Vignesh Mukundhan

Charged lepton flavour-violating (cLFV) processes, which are definite proof of new physics beyond the Standard Model, have remained elusive experimentally till now. Effective Field Theory (EFT) has been very useful in providing information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Utpal Chattopadhyay , Debottam Das , Rahul Puri , Joydeep Roy

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

Lepton flavour violating (LFV) processes are a smoking gun signal of new physics (NP). If the semileptonic $B$ decay anomalies are indeed due to some NP, such operators can potentially lead to LFV decays involving the second and the third…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Zaineb Calcuttawala , Anirban Kundu , Soumitra Nandi , Sunando Kumar Patra

In this paper we firstly study various model-independent bounds on lepton flavor violation (LFV) in processes of $J/\Psi$, $\Psi'$ and $\Upsilon$ two-body decays, then calculate their branch ratios % By using the constraints from other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 W. J. Huo , T. F. Feng , Y. C. Xing

We consider theories where lepton flavor is violated, in particular concentrating on the four fermion operator consisting of three electrons and a tau. Strong constraints are available from existing searches for tau -> eee, requiring the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-14 Brandon Murakami , Tim M. P. Tait

Within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework, with operators up to dimension 6, we perform a model-independent analysis of the lepton-flavour-violating processes involving tau leptons. Namely, we study hadronic tau decays and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Tomas Husek , Kevin Monsalvez-Pozo , Jorge Portoles

We make an evaluation of the lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays $\tau \to \ell (V^0, P^0)$, where $\ell=e$ or $\mu$ and $V^0(P^0)$ is a neutral vector (pseudo-scalar) meson, in the context of unparticle physics. The constraints are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 Zuo-Hong Li , Ying Li , Hong-Xia Xu

Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) decays are forbidden in the Standard Model (SM) and to explore them one has to go beyond it. The flavor changing neutral current induced Lepton Flavor Conserving and LFV decays of $K$ and $B$ mesons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Fayyazuddin , M. Jamil Aslam , Cai-Dian Lu

We present the results of a search for charged-lepton-flavor violating decays $\tau^{-} \rightarrow \ell^{-}K_{S}^{0}$, where $\ell^{-}$ is either an electron or a muon. We combine $e^+e^-$ data samples recorded by the Belle II experiment…

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Torassa , K. Trabelsi , I. Tsaklidis , I. Ueda , T. Uglov , K. Unger , Y. Unno , K. Uno , S. Uno , P. Urquijo , Y. Ushiroda , S. E. Vahsen , R. van Tonder , K. E. Varvell , M. Veronesi , A. Vinokurova , V. S. Vismaya , L. Vitale , V. Vobbilisetti , R. Volpe , A. Vossen , M. Wakai , S. Wallner , M. -Z. Wang , A. Warburton , M. Watanabe , S. Watanuki , C. Wessel , E. Won , X. P. Xu , B. D. Yabsley , S. Yamada , W. Yan , S. B. Yang , J. Yelton , J. H. Yin , K. Yoshihara , C. Z. Yuan , J. Yuan , L. Zani , F. Zeng , M. Zeyrek , B. Zhang , V. Zhilich , J. S. Zhou , Q. D. Zhou , L. Zhu , R. Žlebčík

Lepton flavor violating decays $Z \to \mu \tau$ and $J/\Psi, \Upsilon \to \mu \tau$ are considered. It is shown that these decays can reach sizeable magnitudes if some specific lepton-flavor violating 4-fermion operators are generated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Z. K. Silagadze

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

Starting from a general effective Lagrangian for lepton flavor violation (LFV) in quark-lepton transitions, we derive constraints on the effective coefficients from the high-mass tails of the dilepton processes $pp \to \ell_k \ell_l$ (with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrei Angelescu , Darius A. Faroughy , Olcyr Sumensari

We search for lepton-flavor-violating tau decays into three leptons (electron or muon) using 535 fb-1 of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. No evidence for these decays is observed, and we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Miyazaki

Below the electroweak scale, new physics that violates lepton number in two units ($\Delta L = 2$) and is mediated by heavy particle exchange can be parameterized by a dimension-9 low-energy effective Lagrangian. Operators in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Marcela González , Nicolás A. Neill

Charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) processes, potentially important for various Beyond the Standard Model Physics scenarios are analyzed in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. We consider the most relevant 2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 Md Isha Ali , Utpal Chattopadhyay , N Rajeev , Joydeep Roy

We search for lepton-flavor-violating tau decays into three leptons (electron or muon) using 535 fb^{-1} of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. No evidence for these decays is observed and we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-08-27 The Belle Collaboration , K. Abe