{
  "id": "1303.0596",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-03-04T04:11:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-03-24T00:34:56.000Z",
  "title": "Limits on Lepton Flavor Violation from μ-e-conversion",
  "authors": [
    "Marcela Gonzalez",
    "Thomas Gutsche",
    "Juan Carlos Helo",
    "Sergey Kovalenko",
    "Valery E. Lyubovitskij",
    "Ivan Schmidt"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 1 figure, text partially modified, typo in eq. (5) fixed, results and conclusions unchanged",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We revisit the status of Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) \\mu e qq contact interactions from the view point of \\mu - e -conversion in nuclei. We consider their contribution to this LFV process via the two mechanisms on the hadronic level: direct nucleon and meson exchange ones. In the former case the quarks are embedded directly into the nucleons while in the latter in mesons which then interact with nucleons in a nucleus. We revise and in some cases reevaluate the hadronic parameters relevant for both mechanisms and calculate the contribution of the above mentioned contact interactions in coherent \\mu - e -conversion in various nuclei. Then we update the existing upper bounds and also derive new ones for the scales of the \\mu e qq contact interactions from the experimental limits on the capture rates of \\mu - e -conversion. We compare these limits with the ones derived in the literature from other LFV processes and comment on the prospects of LHC searches related to the contact \\mu e qq interactions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2013-03-24T00:34:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.60.-i",
      "11.30.Fs",
      "14.60.Cd",
      "14.60.Ef"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "lepton flavor violation",
      "qq contact interactions",
      "conversion",
      "hadronic parameters relevant",
      "view point"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.87.096020",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 87,
      "number": 9,
      "pages": "096020"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1222329,
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvD..87i6020G"
    }
  }
}