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    Lepton flavor violating processes in unparticle physics

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    We study the virtual effects of unparticle physics in the lepton flavor violating processes M0β†’l+lβ€²βˆ’M^0\to l^+l'^- and e+eβˆ’β†’l+lβ€²βˆ’e^+e^-\to l^+l'^- scattering, where M0M^0 denotes the pseudoscalar mesons: Ο€0,KL,D0,B0,Bs0\pi^0,K_L, D_0,B_0,B_s^0 and l,lβ€²l,l' denote two different lepton flavors. For the decay of B0β†’l+lβ€²βˆ’B^0\to l^+l'^-, there is no constraint from the current experimental upper bounds on the vector unparticle coupling with leptons. The constraint on the coupling constant between scalar unparticle field and leptons is sensitive to the scaling dimension of the unparticle dUd_{\cal U}. For the scattering process eβˆ’e+β†’lβˆ’lβ€²+e^-e^+\to l^-l'^+, there is only constraint from experiments on the vector unparticle couplings with leptons but no constraint on the scalar unparticle. We study the s\sqrt s dependence of the cross section 1ΟƒdΟƒds \frac{1}{\sigma} \frac{d\sigma}{d\sqrt s} of e+eβˆ’β†’lβˆ’lβ€²+e^+e^-\to l^-l'^+ with different values of dUd_{\cal U}. If dU=1.5d_{\cal U}=1.5, the cross section is independent on the center mass energy. For dU>1.5d_{\cal U}>1.5, the cross section increases with s\sqrt s.Comment: 8 pages, revtex4,with 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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