21 research outputs found
Muon to electron conversion in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity
Little Higgs models provide a natural explanation of the little hierarchy
between the electroweak scale and a few TeV scale, where new physics is
expected. Under the same inspiring naturalness arguments, this work completes a
previous study on lepton flavor-changing processes in the Littlest Higgs model
with T-parity exploring the channel that will eventually turn out to be the
most sensitive, \mu-e conversion in nuclei. All one-loop contributions are
carefully taken into account, results for the most relevant nuclei are provided
and a discussion of the influence of the quark mixing is included. The results
for the Ti nucleus are in good agreement with earlier work by Blanke et al.,
where a degenerate mirror quark sector was assumed. The conclusion is that,
although this particular model reduces the tension with electroweak precision
tests, if the restrictions on the parameter space derived from lepton flavor
violation are taken seriously, the degree of fine tuning necessary to meet
these constraints also disfavors this model.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; discussion improved, results
unchanged, one reference added, version to appear in JHE
Flavor violating leptonic decays of τ and μ leptons in the Standard Model with massive neutrinos
We have revisited the computations of the flavor
violating leptonic decays of the τ and μ leptons into three
lighter charged leptons in the Standard Model with massive
neutrinos. We were driven by a claimed unnaturally large
branching ratio predicted for the τ
− → μ
−
l
+
l
− (l = μ, e)
decays (Pham, Eur Phys J C 8:513 1999), which was at odds
with the corresponding predictions for the μ
− → e−e−e+
processes (Petcov, Sov J Nucl Phys 25:340 1977). In contrast
with the prediction in [17], our results are strongly suppressed
and in good agreement with the approximationmade
in Ref. [15], where masses and momenta of the external particles
were neglected in order to deal with the loop integrals.
However -as a result of keeping external momenta and
masses in the computation of the dominant penguin and box
diagrams- we even find slightly smaller branching fractions.
Therefore, we confirm that any future observation of such
processes would be an unambiguous manifestation of new
physics beyond the Standard Model.Finally, we also
acknowledge support from Conacyt through projects FOINS-296-2016
(Fronteras de la Ciencia), and 236394 and 250628 (Ciencia Básica)
Rare Z-decay into light CP-odd Higgs bosons: a comparative study in different new physics models
Various new physics models predict a light CP-odd Higgs boson (labeled as
) and open up new decay modes for Z-boson, such as ,
and , which could be explored at the GigaZ option of
the ILC. In this work we investigate these rare decays in several new physics
models, namely the type-II two Higgs doublet model (type-II 2HDM), the
lepton-specific two Higgs doublet model (L2HDM), the nearly minimal
supersymetric standard model (nMSSM) and the next-to-minimal supersymmetric
standard model (NMSSM). We find that in the parameter space allowed by current
experiments, the branching ratios can reach for
(), for and for , which
implies that the decays and may be accessible
at the GigaZ option. Moreover, since different models predict different
patterns of the branching ratios, the measurement of these rare decays at the
GigaZ may be utilized to distinguish the models.Comment: Version in JHEP (discussions added, errors corrected
Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector
Direct searches for lepton flavour violation in decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The following three decays are considered: H→eτ, H→μτ, and Z→μτ. The searches are based on the data sample of proton–proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are set at the 95 % confidence level: Br (H→eτ)<1.04%, Br (H→μτ)<1.43%, and Br (Z→μτ)<1.69×10−5