Phenomenology of heavy vectorlike leptons

We study the impact that a heavy generation of vectorlike leptons can have on the value of the electric dipole moment of the electron, and the rates for the flavor violating processes mu arrow right e gamma and mu arrow right 3e. The smallness of the charged lepton masses suggests that at least some...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 2013-09, Vol.88 (5), Article 055009
Hauptverfasser: Ishiwata, Koji, Wise, Mark B.
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Zusammenfassung:We study the impact that a heavy generation of vectorlike leptons can have on the value of the electric dipole moment of the electron, and the rates for the flavor violating processes mu arrow right e gamma and mu arrow right 3e. The smallness of the charged lepton masses suggests that at least some of the Yukawa coupling constants of the vectorlike leptons to the ordinary leptons or amongst themselves are small, but even with such small couplings experiments trying to detect these quantities are sensitive to extra generation lepton masses up to about 100 TeV.
ISSN:1550-7998
1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.055009