Lepton flavor violating signals of a little Higgs model at the high energy linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders

Abstract

Littlest Higgs $(LH)$ model predicts the existence of the doubly charged scalars $Φ^{\pm\pm}$, which generally have large flavor changing couplings to leptons. We calculate the contributions of $Φ^{\pm\pm}$ to the lepton flavor violating $(LFV)$ processes $l_{i}\to l_{j}γ$ and $l_{i}\to l_{j}l_{k}l_{k}$, and compare our numerical results with the current experimental upper limits on these processes. We find that some of these processes can give severe constraints on the coupling constant $Y_{ij}$ and the mass parameter $M_Φ$. Taking into account the constraints on these free parameters, we further discuss the possible lepton flavor violating signals of $Φ^{\pm\pm}$ at the high energy linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider $(ILC)$ experiments. Our numerical results show that the possible signals of $Φ^{\pm\pm}$ might be detected via the subprocesses $e^{\pm}e^{\pm}\to l^{\pm}l^{\pm}$ in the future $ILC$ experiments.

16 pages, 7 figures. Discussions and references added, typos corrected