The Higgs boson decays with the lepton flavor violation

Abstract

Within the left-right symmetric model (LRM), the decays S1 → μ+ + τ-, where S1 is an analog of the Standard Model Higgs boson, are considered. The widths of this decays are found in the third-order of the perturbation theory. Since the main contribution to the decay widths is caused by the diagram with the light and heavy neutrinos in the virtual state, then investigation of this decays could shed light upon the neutrino sector structure. The obtained decay widths critically depend on the charged gauge bosons mixing angle ϵ and the heavy-light neutrinos mixing angle φ. The LRM predicts the values of these angles as functions of the vacuum expectation values vL and vR. Using the results of the existing experiments, on looking for the additional charged gauge boson W2 and on measuring the electroweak p parameter, gives sin ϵ ≤ 5 × 10-4,sin φ ≤ 2.3 × 10-2. However, even using the upper bounds on sin ϵ and sin φ, one does not manage to get the upper experimental bound on the branching ratio BR(S1 → τμ)exp being equal to 0.25 × 10-2. The theoretical expression proves to be on two orders of magnitude less than BR(S1 → μ)exp.