Lepton-number-violating decays of heavy flavors induced by doubly-charged Higgs boson

Abstract

We study lepton-number-violating (LNV) decays of heavy flavors ($\tau$ lepton and top quark) induced by doubly-charged Higgs boson in the Higgs triplet model. It is found that the branching fractions of LNV ${\tau }^{-}\to {\ell }^{+}{M}_1^{-}{M}_2^{-}$ decays are highly suppressed compared with the current experimental limits. On the other hand, for LNV top quark decays, the most optimistic branching ratios for $t\to b{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{+}{W}^{-}$ turn out to be at the level of $\sim 10^{-7}-10^{-8}$. The observation of these rare top quark decays would be a clear signal of LNV processes, and their non-observation would allow us to constraint the parameters of the Higgs triplet model.

11 pages, 4 figures, V2: references added, discussion extended, version accepted in Phys. Rev. D

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