Lepton-flavour-violating gluonic operators: constraints from the LHC and low energy experiments

Abstract

Effective operators provide a model-independent description of physics beyond the stan- dard model that is particularly useful given the absence of any signs of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We recast previous LHC analyses to set limits on lepton-flavour-violating gluonic effective operators of dimension 8 and compare our results to existing limits from low-energy precision experiments. Current LHC data constrains the scale $\Lambda$ of the effective operators to be larger than $\Lambda \gtrsim 0.5-1.6$ TeV depending on the flavour and thus provides the most stringent limit for all operators apart from parity-conserving operators of the form $GG\bar{\mu }{P}_{L,R}e$, where $\mu -e$ conversion in nuclei poses the most stringent constraint.

arXiv comment14 pages, 6 figures; v2: corrected normalization of operators in cross section calculation and matrix elements for tau decays, main conclusions unchanged, accepted by JHEP

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