Charged lepton flavor violation and the origin of neutrino masses

Abstract

The neutrino oscillations imply that charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) processes do exist. Even if the associated rates are in general expected very suppressed, it turns out that this is not always necessarily the case. In the framework of the three basic seesaw models, we review the possibilities of having observable rates and thus, in this way, of distinguishing these possible neutrino mass origins.

Review talk given at the "1st Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor Violation", May 6-8 2013, Lecce, Italy