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The discovery of the lepton number violation would be a smoking gun signal for physics beyond the Standard Model, and its most sensitive probe is the search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). Working in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Lukáš Gráf , Chandan Hati , Ana Martín-Galán , Oliver Scholer

We survey 129 lepton number violating effective operators, consistent with the minimal Standard Model gauge group and particle content, of mass dimension up to and including eleven. Upon requiring that each one radiatively generates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andre de Gouvea , James Jenkins

We perform a systematic study of lepton-number-violating (LNV) dimension-9 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that can mediate neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) at tree level, and map them to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Fabian Esser , Lukáš Gráf , Chandan Hati

There is no guarantee that the violation of lepton number, assuming it exists, will primarily manifest itself in neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). Lepton-number violation and lepton-flavor violation may be related, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-14 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , Andrew Kobach

We investigate lepton number violation (LNV) induced by $\Delta L = 2$ dimension-seven Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators in the context of same-sign muon colliders. Specifically, we study $\mu^+ \mu^+ \rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Soumyajit Datta , Abhik Sarkar

Lepton-number-violating interactions occur in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at odd dimensions starting from the dimension-5 Weinberg operator. Although the operators at dimension-7 and higher are more suppressed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Kåre Fridell , Lukáš Gráf , Julia Harz , Chandan Hati

We study lepton-number-violating interactions at dimension seven in the Standard Model effective field theory that contribute to the meson decays $B \to K \nu \nu$ and $K \to \pi \nu \nu$. Such interactions could washout the baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Motoi Endo , Kåre Fridell , Sho Iwamoto , Yushi Mura , Kei Yamamoto

For a large set of flavor symmetries, the lowest-dimensional baryon- or lepton-number violating operators in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) with flavor symmetry are of mass dimension 9. As a consequence, baryon- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 Andreas Helset , Andrew Kobach

We study the complementary tests of lepton number violation in $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay experiments, long-lived particle (LLP) searches at the LHC main detectors ATLAS/CMS, and a proposed far detector MATHUSLA. In the context of a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Gang Li , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Shufang Su , Juan Carlos Vasquez

We present a global analysis of lepton-flavor-specific operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), combining data from collider and flavor physics experiments. We systematically explore various lepton-flavor scenarios,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Cornelius Grunwald , Gudrun Hiller , Kevin Kröninger , Lara Nollen

We present a complete list of the independent dimension-7 operators that are constructed using the Standard Model degrees of freedom and are invariant under the Standard Model gauge group. This list contains only 20 independent operators;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Landon Lehman

The conservation of lepton flavor is a prediction of the Standard Model and is still an excellent approximate symmetry despite our observation of neutrino oscillations. Lepton flavor violation by one or two units have been discussed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili , Anil Thapa

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

We present a complete and independent set of dimension-7 operators in the low energy effective field theory (LEFT) where the dynamical degrees of freedom are the standard model five quarks and all of the neutral and charged leptons. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Quan-Yu Wang

We analyze neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Apart from the dimension-five Weinberg operator, the first contributions appear at dimension seven. We classify…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-29 V. Cirigliano , W. Dekens , J. de Vries , M. L. Graesser , E. Mereghetti

We study impacts of dimension-five lepton-number violating operators associated with two same-sign weak bosons, $\ell^\pm \ell^{\prime \pm} W^\mp W^\mp$, on current and future experiments for neutrino oscillation, lepton-number violating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Mayumi Aoki , Kazuki Enomoto , Shinya Kanemura

Charged lepton flavor violation arises in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory at mass dimension six. The operators that induce neutrinoless muon and tauon decays are among the best constrained and are sensitive to new-physics scales…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-15 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili

We perform a global analysis of the bounds from charged lepton flavour violating observables to new physics. We parametrize generic new physics through the Effective Field Theory formalism and perform global fits beyond the common…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Enrique Fernández-Martínez , Xabier Marcano , Daniel Naredo-Tuero

This is a sequel to our recent work [1] in which we calculated the lepton number violating (LNV) $K^\pm$ decays due to contact dimension-9 (dim-9) quark-lepton effective interactions that are induced at a high energy scale. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

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
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