TY - JOUR
T1 - Large muon- and electron-number nonconservation in supergravity theories
AU - Borzumati, Francesca
AU - Masiero, Antonio
PY - 1986/1/1
Y1 - 1986/1/1
N2 - We discuss muon and electron lepton-number nonconservation due to renormalization effects of the scalar-lepton mass matrix in spontaneously broken N=1 supergravity theories. Differently from the case of massless or Dirac neutrinos, we find that if neutrinos are Majorana particles in a "seesaw" scheme the couplings photino-lepton-scalar-lepton lead to sizable rates for the processes e and +nucleuse+nucleus. We discuss the constraints derived from the present experimental bounds.
AB - We discuss muon and electron lepton-number nonconservation due to renormalization effects of the scalar-lepton mass matrix in spontaneously broken N=1 supergravity theories. Differently from the case of massless or Dirac neutrinos, we find that if neutrinos are Majorana particles in a "seesaw" scheme the couplings photino-lepton-scalar-lepton lead to sizable rates for the processes e and +nucleuse+nucleus. We discuss the constraints derived from the present experimental bounds.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.961
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.961
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248995594
VL - 57
SP - 961
EP - 964
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 8
ER -