STATUS OF LEPTON

FLAVOUR VIOLATION
Fernando Arias Aragn

(Based mainly on Teixeira, 1612,06194)

Summary
Situation overview

cLFV observables: experimental signatures and branching

ratios.

New Physics models to explain LFV

Conclussions
Situation overview
+ +
First process where LFV was
looked for. (1947)
Two-neutrino hypothesis (1957)

Negative result (1952)

+ + +

Kaon decays

[Kuno and Okada, 1999]

Situation overview
Minimal SM Lepton Flavour Conservation

Neutrino oscillations SM must be extended

cLFV possible via PMNS

2
2
Suppressed by 2 ~1054

If observed, new physics!

An interesting solution: neutrino mass generation LFV

Where to look for it?

Leptonic decays and conversions
Meson decays
Heavy particle decays
cLFV Observables
Radiative decay + +

= =
2

+ back-to-back
~ 1013 [PSI/MEG, 2013]
3-body decay +
= ; = 0
NP
Common vertex
~ 1012 [PSI/SINDRUM, 1988]
conversion + , + (, )
Dependence on Z
~ 100
, ~ 1013 [PSI/SYNDRUM II, 2006]
cLFV Observables
Muonic atom decay


2

Electrons back-to-back
Yet to be studied (COMET)

conversion + + + +
Lepton Flavour violated in 2 units
< 8,3 1011 [Willman et al, 1999]
cLFV Observables
decays
Larger mass more decay channels
Radiative decays ; 3-body decay 3
All Branching Ratios currently of order 108 [SLAC/BaBar and KEK/Belle]
Meson decays [LHCb, BaBar, Belle, etc]
0 < 1,5 108
< 2,8 109
+ + + < 1011
Heavy SM particles decays
; < 107 [ATLAS, 2014]
< 106 ; < 105 [OPAL & DELPHI]
; < 0,0157 [CMS]
; May be explored by LHC [Davidson et al, 2014]
New Physics models to explain LFV
Effective (model independent) approach

= + 4+
4+
>1

Only one (Weinberg) dimension 5 operator

Huge amount of dimension 6 operators cLFV

Limitations of this approach

Dominance of one operator supposed
Higher orders operators?
Several new physics scales
New Physics models to explain LFV
New Physics models to explain LFV
Second approach: specific NP models.
SUSY models
Extra-dimensional models
Little Higgs
Multi-Higgs doublet
Additional symmetries
A particularly interesting solution: LFV
Low-scale seesaw
Heavy states do not fully decouple
PMNS matrix not unitary
Inverse Seesaw: introducing 3 sterile states allowing tuning

SUSY seesaw
LFV only through seesaw
Not too heavy mediators: superpartners
Conclusions
Flavour violation in quark and neutrino sector

No apparent reason protecting cLFV

SM with m cannot predict observable cLFV New Physics

Current and future bounds restricting cLFV

Large amount of NP theories cLFV as a discriminating factor

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