https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0715-2
Review
Flavor physics of leptons and dipole moments
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National Institute for Chemical Physics and Biophysics, 10143, Tallinn, Estonia
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Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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Physics Department, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973-5000, USA
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Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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II. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805, München, Germany
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Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFT/CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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J. Stefan Institute, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Department of Physics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6, Canada
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Physics Department, TU Munich, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Università degli Studi di Cagliari and INFN Cagliari, 09042, Monserrato, (CA), Italy
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Departamento de Física and Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (CFTP), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3, Canada
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SISSA and INFN, Sezione di Trieste, 34013, Trieste, Italy
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Departament de Física Teòrica, Universitat de València-CSIC, 46100, Burjassot, Spain
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Dipartimento di Fisica ‘G. Galilei’ and INFN, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland
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IPNL, CNRS, Université Lyon-1, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CO, 06520, USA
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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Facultad de Fisica, Pontificia Universita Catolica de Chile, Santiago, 22, Chile
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Department of Physics, ETH Honggerberg, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Pisa, 56127, Pisa, Italy
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Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Lab., Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, 380 009, India
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III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen, 52056, Aachen, Germany
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Scuola Normale Superiore, 56100, Pisa, Italy
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Department of Physics, High Energy Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
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ICRR, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439-4843, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki Institute of Physics, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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Theory Group, DESY, 22603, Hamburg, Germany
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Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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NIKHEF, 1098, SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, 10002, Zagreb, Croatia
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IPNS, KEK, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
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Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, 00044, Frascati, Italy
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK
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Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188300, Russia
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, UMR 8627 Université de Paris-Sud XI, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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ICEPP, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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Università dell’Aquila and INFN LNGS, 67010, L’Aquila, Italy
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Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), 9747 AA, Groningen, The Netherlands
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University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and INFN Sezione Roma II, 00133, Roma, Italy
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Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università del Salento, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada
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Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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Department of Physics, University of Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain
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Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
* e-mail: michelangelo.mangano@cern.ch
Received:
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February
2008
Revised:
12
August
2008
Published online:
12
November
2008
This chapter of the report of the “Flavor in the era of the LHC” Workshop discusses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental issues related to flavor phenomena in the charged lepton sector and in flavor conserving CP-violating processes. We review the current experimental limits and the main theoretical models for the flavor structure of fundamental particles. We analyze the phenomenological consequences of the available data, setting constraints on explicit models beyond the standard model, presenting benchmarks for the discovery potential of forthcoming measurements both at the LHC and at low energy, and exploring options for possible future experiments.
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