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Should muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus be found in the current generation of experiments, the measurement of the atomic number dependence of the process will become an important experimental goal. We present a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Léo Borrel , David G. Hitlin , Sophie Middleton

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

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

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

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

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 explore the most general phenomenology of charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) decays of muon and tau leptons to the three body final states $(\bar{e}ee, \bar{\mu}\mu\mu, \bar{e}\mu\mu, \bar{\mu}\mu e,\bar{\mu}ee, \bar{e}e\mu)$. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Spencer Chang , Thomas Driscoll

Muon conversion is one of the best probes of charged lepton flavor violation. The experimental limit is soon expected to improve by four orders of magnitude, thus calling for precise predictions of the shape of the signal spectrum. Equally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Duarte Fontes , Robert Szafron

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavor violating neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a aluminum nucleus. The dynamic of such a process is well modeled by a two-body…

We argue that the COMET experiment --- a dedicated experiment for the $\mu$-$e$ conversion search --- can be a powerful facility to search for heavy neutrinos in the mass range $1\,{\rm MeV} \lesssim M \lesssim 100\,{\rm MeV}$. The stopped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Takehiko Asaka , Atsushi Watanabe

Forbidden in the Standard Model, Charged Lepton Flavour Violation is a strong probe for New Physics. The COMET Experiment will measure one of these processes: that of COherent Muon to Electron Transitions, where a muon converts to an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-31 Benjamin Edward Krikler

We analyze lepton flavor violation (LFV) using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework at the future lepton colliders. Our focus is on the associated production of tau lepton with electron/muon at the electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sahabub Jahedi , Abhik Sarkar

The formalism for the neutrinoless muon positron conversion is investigated in detail and the relevant nuclear matrix elements for light intermediate neutrinos in the case of the experimentally interesting A=27 system are calculated. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. C. Divari , J. D. Vergados , T. S. Kosmas , L. D. Skouras

Together with the existence of new neutral gauge bosons, models based on extended gauge groups (rank $> 4$) often predict also new charged fermions. A mixing of the known fermions with new states with {\it exotic} weak-isospin assignments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Bernabeu , E. Nardi , D. Tommasini

We utilize the lepton number violation signal process $p\, e^- \to \tau^+ jjj$ to search for heavy Majorana neutrinos at future proton-electron colliders. The LHeC (FCC-eh) is considered to run with an electron beam energy of 60 GeV, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-26 Haiyong Gu , Ying-nan Mao , Hao Sun , Kechen Wang

We study the lepton flavor violation (LFV), the leptonic magnetic moments $(g-2)_{\mu,\,e} $ and the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron in the Standard-Model Effective Field Theory with the $\Gamma_N$ modular flavor symmetry. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Tatsuo Kobayashi , Hajime Otsuka , Morimitsu Tanimoto , Kei Yamamoto

Recently, methanol was identified as a sensitive target system to probe variations of the proton-to-electron mass ratio $\mu$ [Jansen \emph{et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{106}, 100801 (2011)]. The high sensitivity of methanol originates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Paul Jansen , Isabelle Kleiner , Li-Hong Xu , Wim Ubachs , Hendrick L. Bethlem

Experimental searches for lepton-flavor-violating coherent muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus, have been proposed to reach the unprecedented sensitivity of 10^(-16) - 10^(-18) per stopped muon. At that level, they probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 Andrzej Czarnecki , Xavier Garcia i Tormo , William J. Marciano

This proceedings contribution discusses Lorentz and CPT violation in the context of charged-lepton flavor-changing processes. Particular emphasis is placed on coherent muon-to-electron conversion in muonic atoms. Data collected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 N. Sherrill

This work proposes a new yet economical experiment to probe the charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) process mediated by an extra massive neutron gauge boson $Z^\prime$ beyond the standard model, by extending a recently proposed muon dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-03 Leyun Gao , Zijian Wang , Cheng-en Liu , Jinning Li , Alim Ruzi , Qite Li , Chen Zhou , Qiang Li