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Lepton Flavour Violation in a Left-Right Symmetric Model
We consider in this paper a Left-Right symmetric gauge model in which a
global lepton-number-like symmetry is introduced and broken spontaneously at a
scale that could be as low as 10^4 GeV or so. The corresponding physical
Nambu-Goldstone boson, which we call majoron and denote J, can have tree-level
flavour-violating couplings to the charged fermions, leading to sizeable
majoron-emitting lepton-flavour-violating weak decays. We consider explicitly a
leptonic variant of the model and show that the branching ratios for \mu ->
e+J, \tau -> e + J and \tau -> \mu + J decays can be large enough to fall
within the sensitivities of future \mu and \tau factories. On the other hand
the left-right gauge symmetry breaking scale may be as low as few TeV.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages, 3 PS figures, uses JHEP.cls, published versio
Predicting charged lepton flavor violation from 3-3-1 gauge symmetry
The simplest realization of the inverse seesaw mechanism in a gauge theory offers striking flavor
correlations between rare charged lepton flavor violating decays and the
measured neutrino oscillations parameters. The predictions follow from the
gauge structure itself without the need for any flavor symmetry. Such tight
complementarity between charged lepton flavor violation and oscillations
renders the scenario strictly testable.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: discussion extended. Matches version
published in PR
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