Lepton flavor violation in muonium decay and muon colliders in models with heavy neutrinos
- 1. Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742 (Korea, Republic of)
- 2. Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749 (Korea, Republic of)
- 3. Department of Physics, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso (Chile)
Description
We study the lepton-flavor-violating reaction μ+e-→e+e- within two extensions of the standard model that include heavy neutrinos. The reaction is studied in the low energy limit in the form of muonium decay M→e+e- and in the high energy regime of a muon collider. The two theoretical models we consider are: model I, a typical seesaw model that violates lepton flavor and number by inclusion of extra right-handed neutrinos; and model II, a variant where lepton number is conserved and which includes extra right-handed as well as left-handed neutrinos, singlets under the gauge group. We find for muonium decay into e+e- the extremely small result Br(M→e+e-)<10-19 in both scenarios. Alternatively, for μ+e- collisions up to √(s)∼50 GeV, we find σ(μ+e-→e+e-)<10-5 fb, while for energies above the W+W- threshold we find σ(μ+e-→W+W-) up to ∼1 fb
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.093011;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0608203v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 74
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 093011-093011.10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38041134
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRON-MUON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; FLAVOR MODEL; GEV RANGE; LEPTON NUMBER; MUONIUM; MUONS PLUS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; POSITRONS; STANDARD MODEL; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; MUONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society