Enhancing $l_i \to 3 l_j$ with the $Z^0$-penguin

Details Enhancing $l_i \to 3 l_j$ with the $Z^0$-penguin Enhancing $l_i \to 3 l_j$ with the $Z^0$-penguin

2012-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/1202.1825v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages

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Lepton flavor violation (LFV) has been observed in neutrino oscillations. For charged lepton FV decays only upper limits are known, but sizable branching ratios are expected in many neutrino mass models. High scale models, such as the classical supersymmetric seesaw, usually predict that decays $l_i \to 3 l_j$ are roughly a factor $\alpha$ maller than the corresponding decays $l_i \to l_j \gamma$. Here we demonstrate that the $Z^0$-penguin diagram can give an enhancement for decays $l_i \to 3 l_j$ in many extensions of the MSSM. We first discuss why the $Z^0$-penguin is not dominant in the MSSM with seesaw and show that much larger contributions from the $Z^0$-penguin are expected in general. We then demonstrate the effect numerically in two example models, namely, the supersymmetric inverse seesaw and R-parity violating supersymmetry.

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