“…As a result, direct and indirect constraints on the LHT are significantly relaxed [21,22]. Thus, the LHT remains phenomenologically viable and well-motivated [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,44,45,46,47].…”
We study lepton flavor violation (LFV) within the Littlest Higgs Model with T parity (LHT) realizing an inverse seesaw (ISS) mechanism of type I. With respect to the traditional LHT, there appear new O(TeV) Majorana neutrinos, driving LFV. For τ → ¯ (including wrong-sign, = e, µ) decays and µ → e conversion in Ti, we get typical rates only one order of magnitude below present bounds ( → γ can reach the current upper limit) and for Z → τ , µ → eeē and conversion in Au, results are within two orders of magnitude from present limits. Correlations among modes are drastically different to the traditional LHT and other models, which would ease the confrontation of this scenario to eventual measurements of LFV processes involving charged leptons.
“…As a result, direct and indirect constraints on the LHT are significantly relaxed [21,22]. Thus, the LHT remains phenomenologically viable and well-motivated [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,44,45,46,47].…”
We study lepton flavor violation (LFV) within the Littlest Higgs Model with T parity (LHT) realizing an inverse seesaw (ISS) mechanism of type I. With respect to the traditional LHT, there appear new O(TeV) Majorana neutrinos, driving LFV. For τ → ¯ (including wrong-sign, = e, µ) decays and µ → e conversion in Ti, we get typical rates only one order of magnitude below present bounds ( → γ can reach the current upper limit) and for Z → τ , µ → eeē and conversion in Au, results are within two orders of magnitude from present limits. Correlations among modes are drastically different to the traditional LHT and other models, which would ease the confrontation of this scenario to eventual measurements of LFV processes involving charged leptons.
The observation of lepton flavor violating processes at colliders could be a clear signal of a nonminimal neutrino sector. We define a 5-parameter model with a pair of TeV fermion singlets and arbitrary mixings with the three active neutrino flavors. Then we analyze several flavor violating transitions ( → γ, ¯ or µ − e conversions in nuclei) and Z →¯ decays induced by the presence of heavy neutrinos. In particular, we calculate all the one-loop contributions to these processes and present their analytic expressions. We focus on the genuine effects of the heavy Majorana masses, comparing the results in that case with the ones obtained when the two heavy neutrinos define a Dirac field. Finally, we use our results to update the bounds on the heavy-light mixings in the neutrino sector.
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