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The search for the Lepton Flavor Violating decay $\mu \to e \gamma$ exploits the most intense continuous muon beams, which can currently deliver $\sim 10^8$ muons per second. In the next decade, accelerator upgrades are expected in various…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-15 Francesco Renga , Gianluca Cavoto , Angela Papa , Emanuele Ripiccini , Cecilia Voena

We chart new-physics models that produce exotic, high-multiplicity muon decays featuring prompt or displaced $e^+e^-$ pairs and/or photons, with or without missing energy, such as $\mu \to 5e$, $\mu \to 7e$, etc. Starting from an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Admir Greljo , Ajdin Palavrić , Mirsad Tunja , Jure Zupan

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

The search for axion-like particles $X$ in muon decays is an excellent opportunity for the MEG II and Mu3e experiments to extend their horizons beyond $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$ and $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^- e^+$. A suitable process for both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 A. Gurgone

The Mu2e experiment will search for a Standard Model violating rate of neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. Observation of this charged lepton flavor violating process would be an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-28 Michael Thomas Hedges

The Mu2e experiment will search for the neutrino-less conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. An observation would be the first signal of charged lepton flavor violation and de facto evidence for new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 Manolis Kargiantoulakis

Lepton flavor violation is one of the cleanest probes of physics beyond the standard model. In this work, we explore the sensitivity of the process $e^+ e^- \to \tau \mu$ to new physics above the TeV scale at the proposed circular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-09 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Pankaj Munbodh , Talise Oh

The $\mu^-e^-\to e^-e^-$ process in a muonic atom is one of the promising probes to study the charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV). We have investigated the angular distribution of electrons from the polarized muon of the atomic bound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Toru Sato , Yuichi Uesaka , Masato Yamanaka

We propose the $\mu^-\to e^-\gamma$ process in a muonic atom as a novel means to investigate charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV). We demonstrate its sensitivity in probing effective CLFV operators associated with both single and double…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Yuichi Uesaka , Masato Yamanaka , Yoshitaka Kuno

We present a search for high-mass resonances decaying into two leptons of different flavor: $e\mu$, $e\tau$ and $\mu\tau$. These resonances are predicted by several models for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, such as R-parity-violating…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-09-02 Yanjun Tu

The Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton-flavour violating decay $\mu^+\rightarrow\ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^-$ with a sensitivity to one signal decay in $10^{16}$ muon decays at a muon stopping rate of $2\times 10^9…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

We present an improved theoretical prediction of the positron energy spectrum for the polarised Michel decay $\mu^+\to e^+ \nu_e\bar{\nu}_\mu$. In addition to the full next-to-next-to-leading order correction of order $\alpha^2$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-25 P. Banerjee , A. M. Coutinho , T. Engel , A. Gurgone , A. Signer , Y. Ulrich

Dedicated experiments searching for lepton flavour violation can be performed very sensitively using K-decays and $\mu$-decays as well as neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay and muonium to antimuonium conversion. Although there is no…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 Klaus P. Jungmann

Starting from the new sources of $LL$- and $LR$- scalar (slepton) mixings due to R-parity violation, we discuss the structure of lepton-flavor violation focusing on the radiative decay of muon into electron. Using an optimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Kingman Cheung , Otto C. W. Kong

We explore the possibility of probing flavor violations in the charged-lepton sector by means of high-luminosity lepton-photon and electron-muon collisions, by inverting initial and final states in a variety of decay channels presently used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele , Roberto Onofrio

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

The production of $\tau\mu$ pairs in electron-positron collisions offers a powerful probe of lepton flavor violation. In this work, we calculate the $e^+ e^- \to \tau \mu$ cross section within the framework of the Standard Model Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Pankaj Munbodh

A search for the lepton flavour violating decay tau -> mu gamma has been performed using 221.4/fb of data collected at an e+e- centre-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring. The search has an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-02 J. M. Roney

The leptons are viewed as composite objects, exhibiting anomalous magnetic moments and anomalous flavor-changing transition moments. The decay $\mu \to e \gamma$ is expected to occur with a branching ratio of the same order as the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Xavier Calmet , Harald Fritzsch , Dirk Holtmannspotter