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Charged-lepton decays from soft flavour violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-16 v2

Abstract

We consider a two-Higgs-doublet extension of the Standard Model, with three right-handed neutrino singlets and the seesaw mechanism, wherein all the Yukawa-coupling matrices are lepton flavour-diagonal and lepton flavour violation is soft, originating solely in the non-flavour-diagonal Majorana mass matrix of the right-handed neutrinos. We consider the limit mRm_R \to \infty of this model, where mRm_R is the seesaw scale. We demonstrate that there is a region in parameter space where the branching ratios of all five charged-lepton decays 123+3\ell_1^- \to \ell_2^- \ell_3^+ \ell_3^- are close to their experimental upper bounds, while the radiative decays 12γ\ell_1^- \to \ell_2^- \gamma are invisible because their branching ratios are suppressed by mR4m_R^{-4}. We also consider the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and show that in our model the contributions from the extra scalars, both charged and neutral, can remove the discrepancy between its experimental and theoretical values.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00724,
  title  = {Charged-lepton decays from soft flavour violation},
  author = {E. H. Aeikens and W. Grimus and L. Lavoura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00724},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages, changes in the abstract, extensive rewritting of section 5, three figures and one reference added, version matches publication in PLB

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