Lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays from massive seesaw neutrinos

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Abstract

Lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays are studied within the context of seesaw models with Majorana massive neutrinos. Two models are considered: the SM-seesaw, with the standard model particle content plus three right-handed neutrinos, and the MSSM-seesaw, with the minimal supersymmetric standard model particle content plus three right-handed neutrinos and their supersymmetric partners. The widths for these decays are derived from a full one-loop diagrammatic computation in both models, and they are analyzed numerically in terms of the seesaw parameters, namely, the Dirac and Majorana mass matrices. Several possible scenarios for these mass matrices that are compatible with neutrino data are considered. In the SM-seesaw case, very small branching ratios are found for all studied scenarios. These ratios are explained as a consequence of the decoupling behavior of the heavy right-handed neutrinos. In contrast, in the MSSM-seesaw case, sizable branching ratios are found for some of the leptonic flavor violating decays of the MSSM neutral Higgs bosons and for some choices of the seesaw matrices and MSSM parameters. The relevance of the two competing sources of lepton flavor changing interactions in the MSSM-seesaw case is also discussed. The nondecoupling behavior of the supersymmetric particles contributing in the loop diagrams is finally shown.

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