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Universality-Breaking Effects in Leptonic Z Decays

Jurgen G. KornerApostolos PilaftsisKarl SchilcherJ. Bernabéu

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PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsComputer Science::Information RetrievalHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyGeneral Physics and AstronomyFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesElementary particleNuclear physicsMAJORANAParticle decayHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Seesaw molecular geometryHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentSymmetry breakingNeutrinoLeptonBoson

description

We analyze the possibility of universality violation in diagonal leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson, in the context of interfamily "see-saw" models. In a minimal extension of the Standard Model with right-handed neutrino fields, we find that universality-breaking effects increase quadratically with the heavy Majorana neutrino mass and may be observed in the running $LEP$ experiments.

10.1103/physrevlett.71.2695http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9307295