Probing the Randall-Sundrum geometric origin of flavor with lepton flavor violation
Probing the Randall-Sundrum geometric origin of flavor with lepton flavor violation
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.74.053011
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发表时间:
2006-09-01
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5
通讯作者:
Petriello, Frank
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作者:
Agashe, Kaustubh;Blechman, Andrew E.;Petriello, Frank
The anarchic Randall-Sundrum model of flavor is a low energy solution to both the electroweak hierarchy and flavor problems. Such models have a warped, compact extra dimension with the standard model fermions and gauge bosons living in the bulk, and the Higgs living on or near the TeV brane. In this paper we consider bounds on these models set by lepton flavor-violation constraints. We find that loop-induced decays of the form l -> l(')gamma are ultraviolet sensitive and incalculable when the Higgs field is localized on a four-dimensional brane; this drawback does not occur when the Higgs field propagates in the full five-dimensional space-time. We find constraints at the few TeV level throughout the natural range of parameters, arising from mu-e conversion in the presence of nuclei, rare mu decays, and rare tau decays. A tension exists between loop-induced dipole decays such as mu -> e gamma and tree-level processes such as mu-e conversion; they have opposite dependences on the five-dimensional Yukawa couplings, making it difficult to decouple flavor-violating effects. We emphasize the importance of the future experiments MEG and PRIME. These experiments will definitively test the Randall-Sundrum geometric origin of hierarchies in the lepton sector at the TeV scale.