Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 615
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4462-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Charged lepton flavor-violating transitions in color octet model

¹ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
² CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
³ Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

^* e-mail: liaoy@nankai.edu.cn

Received: 5 September 2016
Accepted: 24 October 2016
Published online: 9 November 2016

Abstract

We study charged lepton flavor-violating (LFV) transitions in the color octet model that generates neutrino mass and lepton mixing at one loop. By taking into account neutrino oscillation data and assuming octet particles of TeV scale mass, we examine the feasibility to detect these transitions in current and future experiments. We find that for general values of parameters the branching ratios for LFV decays of the Higgs and Z bosons are far below current and even future experimental bounds. For LFV transitions of the muon, the present bounds can be satisfied generally, while future sensitivities could distinguish between the singlet and triplet color-octet fermions. The triplet case could be ruled out by future conversion in nuclei, and for the singlet case the conversion and the decays play complementary roles in excluding relatively low-mass regions of the octet particles.