Probing Lepton Flavour Violation in νμ + N --> τ + ... Scattering and μ-->τ Conversion on Nucleons
Abstract
We study lepton flavour-violating interactions which could result in the τ-lepton production in the νμN scattering or in μ-->τ conversion on nucleons at high energies. Phenomenological bounds on the strength of ¯ τ ν μ ¯ qq' interactions are extracted from the combined result of the NOMAD and CHORUS experiments on searching for νμ-ντ oscillations. Some of these bounds supersede limits from rare decays. We also propose a ``missing energy'' type experiment searching for μ-->τ conversion on nucleons. The experiment can be performed at a present accelerator or at a future neutrino factory.
- Publication:
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Modern Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217732302007855
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0106302
- Bibcode:
- 2002MPLA...17.1407G
- Keywords:
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- 12.60.Jv;
- 11.30.Fs;
- 13.20.He;
- 14.60.Pq;
- Supersymmetric models;
- Global symmetries;
- Decays of bottom mesons;
- Neutrino mass and mixing;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 4 figures