Majoron emission in muon and tau decays revisited

Abstract

In models where the breaking of lepton number is spontaneous a massless Goldstone boson, the Majoron ($J$), appears. We calculate the theoretically allowed range for the branching ratios of Majoron emitting charged lepton decays, such as Br($\mu \to eJ$) and Br($\mu \to eJ\gamma$), in a supersymmetric model with spontaneous breaking of R-parity. Br($\mu \to eJ$) is maximal in the same region of parameter space for which the lightest neutralino decays mainly invisibly. A measurement of Br($\mu \to eJ$) thus potentially provides information on R-parity violation complementary to accelerator searches. We also briefly discuss existing bounds and prospects for future improvements on the Majoron coupling to charged leptons.

9 pages, 4 figures

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