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Non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix: Present bounds and future sensitivities

Antusch, Stefan and Fischer, Oliver. (2014) Non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix: Present bounds and future sensitivities. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10. p. 94.

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Abstract

The non-unitarity of the effective leptonic mixing matrix at low energies is a generic signal of extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with extra fermionic singlet particles, i.e. sterile or right-handed neutrinos, to account for the observed neutrino masses. The low energy effects of such extensions can be described in a model-independent way by the Minimal Unitarity Violation (MUV) scheme, an effective field theory extension of the SM. We perform a global fit of the MUV scheme parameters to the present experimental data, which yields the up-to-date constraints on leptonic non-unitarity. Furthermore, we investigate the sensitivities and discovery prospects of future experiments. In particular, FCC-ee/TLEP would be a powerful probe of flavour-conserving non-unitarity for singlet masses up to ~ 60 TeV. Regarding flavour-violating non-unitarity, future experiments on muon-to-electron conversion in nuclei could even probe extensions with singlet masses up to ~ 0.3 PeV.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Physik > Physik > Theoretische Physik (Antusch)
UniBasel Contributors:Antusch, Stefan and Fischer, Oliver
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:1029-8479 (electronic version)
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Deposited On:02 May 2016 08:56

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