Lepton Flavor Violation in Supersymmetric SO(10) Grand Unified Models

Abstract

The study for lepton flavor violation combined with the neutrino oscillation may provide more information about the lepton flavor structure of the grand unified theory. In this paper, we study two lepton flavor violation processes, $\tau \to \mu \gamma$ and $Z\to \tau \mu$, in the context of supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified models. We find the two processes are both of phenomenological interest. In particular the latter may be important in some supersymmetric parameter space where the former is suppressed. Thus, Z-dacay may offer another chance for looking for lepton flavor violation.

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures