Abstract
We study the lepton-flavor-violating reaction μ+e−→e+e− within two extensions of the standard model that include heavy neutrinos. The reaction is studied in the low energy limit in the form of muonium decay M→e+e− and in the high energy regime of a muon collider. The two theoretical models we consider are: model I, a typical seesaw model that violates lepton flavor and number by inclusion of extra right-handed neutrinos; and model II, a variant where lepton number is conserved and which includes extra right-handed as well as left-handed neutrinos, singlets under the gauge group. We find for muonium decay into e+e− the extremely small result Br(M→e+e−)<10−19 in both scenarios. Alternatively, for μ+e− collisions up to s∼50  GeV, we find σ(μ+e−→e+e−)<10−5   fb, while for energies above the W+W− threshold we find σ(μ+e−→W+W−) up to ∼1   fb.

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