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Title: Lepton flavor violation by two units
Charged lepton flavor violation arises in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory at mass dimension six. The operators that induce neutrinoless muon and tauon decays are among the best constrained and are sensitive to new-physics scales up to 107GeV. An entirely different class of lepton-flavor-violating operators violates lepton flavors by two units rather than one and does not lead to such clean signatures. Even the well-known case of muonium--anti-muonium conversion that falls into this category is only sensitive to two out of the three ΔLμ=−ΔLe=2 dimension-six operators. We derive constraints on many of these operators from lepton flavor universality and show how to make further progress with future searches at Belle II and future experiments such as Z factories or muon colliders.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2210428
PAR ID:
10542809
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Elsevier
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physics Letters B
Volume:
852
Issue:
C
ISSN:
0370-2693
Page Range / eLocation ID:
138621
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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