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Lepton Flavour Violation in a Left-Right Symmetric Model

Sergio Pastor, Saurabh D. Rindani, Jose W. F. Valle

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9705394

Abstract

We consider in this paper a Left-Right symmetric gauge model in which a global lepton-number-like symmetry is introduced and broken spontaneously at a scale that could be as low as 104 GeV or so. The corresponding physical Nambu-Goldstone boson, which we call majoron and denote J, can have tree-level flavour-violating couplings to the charged fermions, leading to sizeable majoron-emitting lepton-flavour-violating weak decays. We consider explicitly a leptonic variant of the model and show that the branching ratios for μ-> e+J, τ-> e + J and τ-> μ+ J decays can be large enough to fall within the sensitivities of future μand τfactories. On the other hand the left-right gauge symmetry breaking scale may be as low as few TeV.

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