2004/07/31 by A. Masiero, Antonio Masiero, Sudhir K. Vempati +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/202
published as NewJ.Phys.6:202,2004 · 23 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to the New Journal of Physics, focus Issue on 'Neutrino Physics' edited by F. Halzen, M. Lindner and A. Suzuki. v2: Added references and corrected typos. To be published version
arxiv created 2004/09/17 · openalex publication_date 2004/12/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
In spite of the large lepton flavour violation (LFV) observed in neutrino oscillations, within the Standard Model, we do not expect any visible LFV in the charged lepton sector (μ → e , γ, τ → μ, γ, etc). On the contrary, the presence of new physics close to the electroweak scale can enhance the amplitudes of these processes. We discuss this in general and focus on a particularly interesting case: the marriage of low-energy supersymmetry (SUSY) and seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses (SUSY seesaw). Several ideas presented in this context are reviewed both in the bottom-up and top-down approaches. We show that there exist attractive models where the rate for LFV processes can attain values to be probed in pre-LHC experiments.