DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01137-1
Lepton flavor-changing scalar interactions and g-2 of the muon
Y.-F. Zhou1 and Y.-L. Wu21 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sektion Physik, Theresienstraße 37, 80333 München, Germany
2 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
(Received: 5 September 2002 / Revised version: 11 January 2003 / Published online: 26 February 2003 )
Abstract
A systematic investigation on the muon's anomalous magnetic moment
and
a related lepton flavor-violating process such as
,
and
is made at the two-loop level in the models
with
flavor-changing scalar interactions. The two-loop diagrams with
double scalar exchanges are studied and their contributions are
found to be compatible with the ones from the Barr-Zee diagram.
By
comparing with the latest data, the allowed ranges for the relevant
Yukawa couplings
Yij in the lepton sector are obtained.
The
results show the hierarchical structure
in the physical basis if
is
found to be
. It deviates from the widely
used
ansatz in which the off-diagonal elements are proportional to
the
square root of the products of the related fermion masses. An
alternative Yukawa coupling matrix in the lepton sector is
suggested to understand the current data. With such a reasonable
Yukawa coupling ansatz, the decay rate of
is found
to
be near the current experiment upper bound.
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