Charged-lepton mixing and lepton flavor violation

Journal Article · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physics Letters B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.010· OSTI ID:1223823

Guadagnoli, Diego; Lane, Kenneth

We present a model for calculating charged-lepton mixing matrices. These matrices are an essential ingredient for predicting lepton avor-violating rates in the lepton number nonuniversal models recently proposed to explain anomalies in B-meson decays. The model is based on work on \constrained flavor breaking" by Appelquist, Bai and Piai relating the charged-lepton mass matrix, Mι, to those for the up and down-type quarks, M_ud. We use our recent model of lepton nonuniversality to illustrate the magnitudes of avor-violating B-decay rates that might be expected. As a result, decays with μτ final states generally have the highest rates by far.

• Research Organization: Boston Univ., MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0010106
• OSTI ID: 1223823
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1239975
• Journal Information: Physics Letters B, Journal Name: Physics Letters B Vol. 751 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: Netherlands
• Language: English

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