14th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2022)

Improved limits on lepton-flavor-violating decays of light pseudoscalars via spin-dependent μ→e conversion in nuclei

Aug 30, 2022, 1:50 PM

25m

Palm Ballroom 5

Parallel session talk Precision Physics at High Intensities HI: Precision Physics at High Intensities

Speaker

Mr Frederic Noël (ITP, University of Bern)

Description

Lepton-flavor-violating decays of light pseudoscalars, $P={\pi }^0,\eta ,{\eta }^{\prime }\to \mu e$, are stringently suppressed in the Standard Model up to tiny contributions from neutrino oscillations, so that their observation would be a clear indication for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, in effective field theory such decays proceed via axial-vector, pseudoscalar, or gluonic operators, which are, at the same time, probed in spin-dependent $\mu \to e$ conversion in nuclei. We derive master formulae that connect both processes in a model-independent way in terms of Wilson coefficients, and study the implications of current $\mu \to e$ limits in titanium for the $P\to \mu e$ decays. We find that these indirect limits surpass direct ones by many orders of magnitude.

based on: arXiv:2204.06005 [hep-ph]

Presentation materials

CIPANP2022_Noel_MutoeToPmue.pdf