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Within a class of models in which lepton flavor violation is induced dominantly by scalar particle exchanges, we estimate the $\mu \to e$ conversion rate in several nuclei. We include next-to-leading order (NLO) terms in the one- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-26 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Kaori Fuyuto , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Evan Rule

The search for charged lepton flavour violation (CLFV) has enormous discovery potential in probing new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Among the muonic CLFV processes, $\mu \to e$ conversion is one of the most important processes,…

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Amand Faessler , Th. Gutsche , Sergey Kovalenko , V. E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt , F. Simkovic

Lepton flavor violation (LFV) has been discovered in the neutrino sector by neutrino oscillation experiments. The minimally extended Standard Model (SM) to include neutrino masses allows LFV in the charged sector (CLFV) at the loop-level,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-12 MyeongJae Lee , Michael MacKenzie

With the improvement of muon acceleration technology, it has received great interest to exploit high-energy muon beams for collision or target experiments. We investigate possible charged Lepton Flavor Violation (cLFV) processes mediated by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-29 Ran Ding , Jingshu Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You , Zijian Wang , Qiang Li

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

The experimental sensitivity to $\mu \to e$ conversion on nuclei is set to improve by four orders of magnitude in coming years. However, various operator coefficients add coherently in the amplitude for $\mu \to e$ conversion, weighted by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Sacha Davidson , Yoshitaka Kuno , Masato Yamanaka

We revisit charged lepton flavour in-flight conversions, in which a beam of electrons or muons is directed onto a fixed target, $e + N \to \mu +N$, $e + N \to \tau +N$ and $\mu + N \to \tau +N$, focusing on elastic interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 A. Abada , V. De Romeri , J. Orloff , A. M. Teixeira

We study the Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) $e(\mu)-\tau$ conversion in Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) of electron (muon) on fixed-target nuclei. Our model-independent analysis is based on the set of the low-energy effective four-fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Sergei Gninenko , Sergey Kovalenko , Serguei Kuleshov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Alexey S. Zhevlakov

The charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) processes of $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ decay by four Fermi contact interactions in a muonic atom for various atoms are investigated. The wave functions of bound and scattering state leptons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Yuichi Uesaka , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Toru Sato , Masato Yamanaka

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab looks for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) improving by 4 orders of magnitude the current experimental sensitivity for the muon to electron conversion in a muonic atom. A positive signal could not be…

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…

Upcoming searches for lepton flavour change (LFV) aim to probe New Physics(NP) scales up to $ \sim 10^4$ TeV, implying that they will be sensitive to NP at lower scales that is suppressed by loops or small couplings. We suppose that the NP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Marco Ardu , Sacha Davidson

The lepton-flavor-violating conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus is one of the most sensitive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model and the experiments Mu2e, COMET, and DeeMe will explore uncharted terrain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Julian Heeck , Robert Szafron , Yuichi Uesaka

We point out that extensions of the Standard Model with low scale (~TeV) lepton number violation (LNV) generally lead to a pattern of lepton flavor violation (LFV) experimentally distinguishable from the one implied by models with GUT scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Cirigliano , A. Kurylov , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , P. Vogel

Lepton Flavour Violation(LFV) is New Physics that must occur, but is stringently constrained by experiments searching for mu to e flavour change, such as $\mu \to e \gamma$, $\mu \to 3e$ and $\mu \to e$ conversion. However, in an Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Sacha Davidson

Transition rates for coherent muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms, mu+N --> e+N, are computed for various types of muon number violating interactions. Attention is paid to relativistic atomic effects, Coulomb distortion, finite nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Czarnecki , William J. Marciano , Kirill Melnikov

The rate for $\mu\to e$ conversion in nuclei is set to provide the most stringent test of lepton-flavor symmetry and a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. However, to disentangle new lepton-flavor-violating interactions, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Matthias Heinz , Martin Hoferichter , Takayuki Miyagi , Frederic Noël , Achim Schwenk

We study the lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes mu -> e gamma, mu -> 3e, and mu -> e conversion in nuclei in the left-right symmetric model without supersymmetry and perform the first complete computation of the LFV branching ratios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Cirigliano , A. Kurylov , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , P. Vogel

We investigate the sensitivity of electron-proton ($ep$) colliders for charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) in an effective theory approach, considering a general effective Lagrangian for the conversion of an electron into a muon or a tau…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Stefan Antusch , A. Hammad , Ahmed Rashed