Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 161801 (2001) [4 pages]

Large Electric Dipole Moments of Heavy Leptons

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Marc Sher *
Nuclear and Particle Theory Group, Physics Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187

Received 1 June 2001; published 1 October 2001

In many models of CP violation, the electric dipole moment (EDM) of a heavy charged or neutral lepton could be very large. In models in which the EDMs scale as the cube of the mass, as well as in vectorlike models, a 100 GeV heavy lepton can have an EDM as large as 0.01e fermi. This could dominate the electromagnetic properties of heavy leptons. The angular distribution and production cross section of charged and neutral heavy leptons with large EDMs is calculated and discussed. The interesting possibility that a heavy neutrino with a large EDM could leave an ionization track in a drift chamber is investigated.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v87/e161801
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.161801
PACS: 13.40.Em, 13.10.+q, 12.60.Fr, 13.35.-r

* Email address: sher@physics.wm.edu

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