from 31 May 2021 to 4 June 2021
Mexico/General timezone
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Contribution
$\tau \to \mu\mu\mu$ at a rate of one out of $10^{14}$ tau decays?
Speakers
- Patrick BLACKSTONE
Primary authors
- Patrick BLACKSTONE (Indiana University)
- Matteo FAEL (KIT)
- Emilie PASSEMAR (Indiana University/JLab)
Description
We present in full analytic form the partial widths for the lepton flavour
violating decays $L^\pm \to \ell^\pm \ell'^{+} \ell'^{-}$, with $L = \tau, \mu$ and
$\ell(') = \mu, e$, mediated by neutrino oscillations in the one-loop diagrams.
Compared to the first result by Petcov:1976ff, which was obtained in the
nonphysical zero momentum limit $\mathcal{P} \ll m_{\nu} \ll M_W$, we retain full
dependence on external scales $\mathcal{P}$ and determine the branching ratios
in the physical limit $m_\nu \ll \mathcal{P} \ll M_W$. We show that in this limit
the conclusion by Pham:1998fq that $\tau \to \ell \ell' \ell'$ could be as large as
$10^{-14}$ is flawed. In this talk we will describe the details of our calculation,
present our results, and motivate some of the peculiarities of this calculation
from the viewpoint of effective field theory.