Higgs-mediated tau-->3micro in the supersymmetric seesaw model

Recent observations of neutrino oscillations imply nonzero neutrino masses and lepton flavor violation (LFV), most economically explained by the seesaw mechanism. Within the context of supersymmetry, LFV among the neutrinos can be communicated to the sleptons and from there to the charged leptons. We show that LFV can appear in the couplings of the neutral Higgs bosons, an effect that is strongly enhanced at large tan(beta. We calculate the branching fraction for tau-->3micro and micro-->3e mediated by Higgs and find they can be as large as 10(-7) and 5x10(-14), respectively. These modes, along with tau-->mugamma and mu-->egamma, can provide key insights into the neutrino mass matrix.     

Theoretical aspects of neutrino mass and lepton flavour violation

We consider lepton flavour violation (LFV) in the charged lepton sector both from the bottom-up effective Lagrangian approach and from the top-down approach via various case studies that have been analysed. The implications for LFV studies at the LHC is briefly discussed. Finally the nature of LFV in the neutrino sector is considered, paying particular regard to the implications of the recent measurements of ?? ₁₃.     

Studying lepton family violation in lepton-lepton collisions

In the context of the future high energy – high luminosity electron and muon colliders, all the relevant four-lepton processes with the lepton family violation (LFV) are systematically classified. The most general LFV effective lagrangians are found, and the helicity differential cross sections for the LFV processes are calculated. The six- and eight-lepton Standard Model (SM) backgrounds are discussed, and the LFV processes clean of the six-lepton background are picked out. The possibility to suppress the six-lepton SM background, when present, by the unnatural initial beam polarizations is investigated. It is shown that the four-lepton LFV processes are amenable to experimental study in the lepton-lepton collisions in the most favourable cases up to the underlying scale of order TeV. Studying these processes should provide an essential part of the physics program for the next generation lepton colliders to unravel the outstanding flavour/family problem. Received: 20 October 1997 / Published online: 23 February 1998     

Lepton flavour violation in the constrained MSSM with constrained sequential dominance

We consider charged lepton flavour violation (LFV) in the constrained minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, extended to include the see-saw mechanism with constrained sequential dominance (CSD), where CSD provides a natural see-saw explanation of tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing. When charged lepton corrections to tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing are included, we discover characteristic correlations among the LFV branching ratios, depending on the mass ordering of the right-handed neutrinos, with a pronounced dependence on the leptonic mixing angle θ₁₃${\theta }_{13}$ (and in some cases also on the Dirac CP phase δ).     

Lepton Flavor Violating Decays τ→μM in the 331 Model

Considering the experimental constraints on the free parameters of the 331 model with a leptonic sector consistent of five triplets, we investigate the lepton flavor violation (LFV) tau decays τ→μM with M=P and V, where P and V denote a pseudoscalar meson (π,η or η') and a vector meson (ρ⁰,ω or φ), respectively. We find that the contributions of the 331 model to the LFV decays τ→μM mainly come from the new neutral gauge boson Z'. The 331 model considered in this paper can not make the values of the branching ratio Br(τ→μM) approach the corresponding experimental upper limits.     

μ → <Emphasis Type="Italic">e</Emphasis>γ decay versus the μ → <Emphasis Type="Italic">eee</Emphasis> bound and lepton flavor violating processes in supernova

Even tiny lepton flavor violation (LFV) due to some New Physics is able to alter the conditions inside a collapsing supernova core and probably to facilitate the explosion. LFV emerges naturally in a see-saw type-II model of neutrino mass generation. Experimentally, the LFV beyond the Standard Model is constrained by rare lepton decay searches. In particular, strong bounds are imposed on the μ → eee branching ratio and on the μ-e conversion in muonic gold. Currently, the μ→eγ is under investigation in the MEG experiment that aims at a dramatic increase in sensitivity in the next three years. We seek a see-saw type-II LFV pattern that fits all the experimental constraints, leads to Br(μ →eγ) ≳ Br(μμ →eee), and ensures a rate of LFV processes in supernova high enough to modify the supernova physics. These requirements are sufficient to eliminate almost all freedom in the model. In particular, they lead to the prediction 0.4 × 10⁻¹² ≲ Br(μ → eγ) ≲ 6 × 10⁻¹², which will be testable by MEG in the nearest future. The considered scenario also constrains the neutrino mass-mixing pattern and provides lower and upper bounds on τ-lepton LFV decays. We also briefly discuss a model with a single bilepton in which the μ → eee decay is absent at the tree level.     

Non-standard neutrino interactions in the Zee–Babu model

We investigate non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs) in the Zee–Babu model. The size of NSIs predicted by this model is obtained from a full scan over the parameter space, taking into account constraints from low-energy experiments such as searches for lepton flavor violation (LFV) and the requirement to obtain a viable neutrino mass matrix. The dependence on the scale of new physics as well as on the type of the neutrino mass hierarchy is discussed. We find that NSIs at the source of a future neutrino factory may be at an observable level in the ν_e→ν_τ and/or ν_μ→ν_τ channels. In particular, if the doubly charged scalar of the model has a mass in reach of the LHC and if the neutrino mass hierarchy is inverted, a highly predictive scenario is obtained with observable signals at the LHC, in upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments, in LFV processes, and for NSIs at a neutrino factory.     

Low-scale leptogenesis and soft supersymmetry breaking

We investigate the possibility of low-scale leptogenesis in the minimal supersymmetric standard model extended with right-handed (s)neutrinos. We demonstrate that successful leptogenesis can be easily achieved at a scale as low as approximately TeV where lepton number and CP violation comes from soft supersymmetry breaking terms. The scenario is shown to be compatible with neutrino masses data.     

Search for flavor lepton number violation in slepton decays at LHC

We show that in supersymmetric models with explicit flavor lepton number violation due to soft supersymmetry breaking mass terms there could be detectable flavor lepton number violation in slepton decays. We estimate the potential for discovery of lepton flavor number violation in slepton decays at LHC. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 65, No. 2, 139–144 (25 January 1997) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

Left-right symmetry: from the LHC to neutrinoless double beta decay

The Large Hadron Collider has the potential to probe the scale of left-right symmetry restoration and the associated lepton number violation. Moreover, it offers the hope of measuring the right-handed leptonic mixing matrix. We show how this, together with constraints from lepton flavor violating processes, can be used to make predictions for neutrinoless double beta decay. We illustrate this connection in the case of the type-II seesaw.     

Lepton number violation in D meson decay

The lepton number violation(LNV) process can be induced by introducing a fourth generation heavy Majorana neutrino,which is coupled to the charged leptons of the Standard Model(SM). There have been many previous studies on the leptonic number violating decay processes with this mechanism. We follow the trend to study the process: D→Kllπ with the same-sign dilepton final states. We restrict ourselves to certain neutrino mass regions,in which the heavy neutrino could be on-shell and the dominant contribution to the branching fraction comes from the resonance enhanced effect. Applying the narrow width approximation(NWA),we found that the upper limit for the branching fractions for D0→ K-l+l+π-are generally at the order of 10-12 to 10-9,if we take the most stringent upper limit bound currently available in the literature for the mixing matrix elements. We also provide the constraints,which is competitive compared to the LNV B decays,on the mixing matrix element |VeN|2 based on the upper limit of D0→ K-e+e+π-estimated from the Monte-Carlo(MC) study at BESⅢ. Although the constraints are worse than the ones from(0νββ) decay in the literature,the future experiment at the charm factory may yield more stringent constraints.     

Neutral top-pion and the Lepton Flavor Violating Processes

In the context of topcolor-assisted techicolor (TC2)model, we study the contributions of the neutral top-pion π0t to the lepton flavor violation (LFV) processes li→ljγ,li→ljlkll and t→clilj respectively. We find that the present experimental upper bound for μ→eγ gives severe constraints on the free parameters of the TC2 model. Under these constraints,we consider the processes li→ljlkll and t→c lilj generated by π0t exchange at the tree-level and the one loop level. Our numerical results show that the neutral top-pion π0t can enhance the branching ratios of these processes by several orders of magnitude. Some of those processes might be used to detect the possible signals of π0t in the futrue high energy experiment.     

Monte Carlo simulation of baryon and lepton number violating processes at high energies

We report results obtained with the first complete event generator for electroweak baryon and lepton number violating interactions at supercolliders. Typical events contain of the order of 50 electroweak gauge bosons, some Higgs bosons and quarks and leptons of all generations. There is still great uncertainty about the expected rate, but an event generator is needed in any case to establish what experimental limits can be placed on the cross section, and to determine whether, even if such spectacular events are seen, baryon and/or lepton number violation can be conclusively demonstrated. We find that baryon number violation would be very difficult to establish, but lepton number violation can be seen provided at least a few hundredL violating events are available with good electron or muon identification in the energy range 10 GeV to 1 TeV. The event generator, which takes the form of a package (HERBVI) interfacing to the existing simulation program HERWIG, should be useful for the coming period of detailed experiment design for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.     

Space Anisotropy Search at Colliders

In the framework of model with Lorentz violation (LV) we discuss a physical observables for q\(\bar q\) pair production at lepton–lepton colliders and describe the experimental signal to be detected. We obtain a conservative limits on Lorentz-violating dimensionless coupling for quark sector from LEP data. We also make a phenomenological prediction for LV model at the future lepton collider.     

Probing R-parity Violating Interactions via pp^-→eμ＋X Channel on Tevatron

We investigate the lepton flavor violation processes pp→eμX induced by R-parity violating interactions at the Tevatron hadron collider. The theoretical calculation and Monte Carlo simulation demonstrate that with a set of suitable cuts on experimental observables, one might be capable to reduce the standard model physical background to a controllable level so that the signals of R-parity violating interactions could be detected distinctively. Furthermore, clear sneutrino information can be abstracted from the purified event sample where other SUSY scalar quark ``pollution' is heavily suppressed. We conclude that with a reasonable assumption of 10 fb^-1 integrated luminosity, the experiments at the Tevatron machine would have potential to discover sneutrino in the region of m_{\tilde{ν}}≤400 GeV via lepton flavor violation eμ production channels, or extend the mass scale constraint up to m_{\tilde{ν}}≥ 550 GeV at 95% CL.     

Leptogenesis and bi-unitary parametrization of neutrino Yukawa matrix

We analyze the neutrino Yukawa matrix by considering three constraints: the out-of-equilibrium condition of the lepton number-violating process responsible for leptogenesis, the upper bound of the branching ratio of the lepton flavor violating decay, and the prediction of large mixing angles using the see-saw mechanism. In a certain parametrization with a bi-unitary transformation, it is shown that the structure which satisfies the constraints can be characterized by only seven types of Yukawa matrices. The constraint of the branching ratio of LFV turns out to be redundant after applying the other two constraints. We propose that this parametrization can be the framework in which the CP asymmetry of a lepton number-violating process can be predicted in terms of observable neutrino parameters at low energy, if necessary, under assumptions following from a theory with additional symmetries. There is an appealing model of the neutrino Yukawa matrix considering the CP asymmetry for leptogenesis, giving a theoretical motivation to reduce the number of free parameters.Arrival of the final proofs: 24 June 2003     

Is spontaneous breaking of R-parity feasible in minimal low-energy supergravity?

Spontaneous violation of lepton number without breaking Lorentz invariance can, in principle, be incorporated in models with softly broken supersymmetry. We study the situation for minimal low-energy supergravity models coming from a GUT (hence not having hierarchy destabilizing light singlets) and where the SU(2) × U(1) breaking is radiative. It is found that for this type of model, R-parity breaking requires either too heavy a top quark for a realistic superpartner spectrum or too light a superpartner spectrum for a realistic top quark, making the spontaneous violation of lepton number in the third generation incompatible with present experimental data. We do not discard the possibility of having it in a fourth, heavier, generation.     

Neutrino Masses Beyond the Tree Level

Models for Majorana neutrino masses can be classified according to the level in perturbation theory at which the effective dimension five operator LLHH is realized. The possibilities range from the tree-level up to the three-loop level realizations. We discuss some general aspects of this approach and speculate about a model independent classification of the possible cases. Among all the realizations, those in which the effective operator is induced by radiative corrections open the possibility for lepton number violation near—or at—the electroweak scale. We discuss some phenomenological aspects of two generic realizations: the Babu-Zee model and supersymmetric models with bilinear R-parity violation.     

Leptonic minimal flavour violation in warped extra dimensions

Lepton mass hierarchies and lepton flavour violation are revisited in the framework of Randall?CSundrum models. Models with Dirac-type as well as Majorana-type neutrinos are considered. The five-dimensional c-parameters are fit to the charged lepton and neutrino masses and mixings using ?? ² minimization. Leptonic flavour violation is shown to be large in these cases. Schemes of minimal flavour violation are considered for the cases of an effective LLHH operator and Dirac neutrinos and are shown to significantly reduce the limits from lepton flavour violation.