Published November 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

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

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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

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