2013/07/19 by Koji Ishiwata, Mark B. Wise · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.88.055009
published as Phys. Rev. D 88, 055009 (2013) · 7 pages, 4 figures, some references are added, typos are corrected, submitted to PRD
arxiv created 2013/07/19 · arxiv updated 2014/01/30
We study the impact that a heavy generation of vector-like leptons can have on the value of the electric dipole moment of the electron, and the rates for the flavor violating processes mu --> e gamma and mu --> 3e. The smallness of the charged lepton masses suggests that at least some of the Yukawa coupling constants of the vector-like leptons to the ordinary leptons or amongst themselves are small, but even with such small couplings experiments trying to detect these quantities are sensitive to extra generation lepton masses up to about 100 TeV.