Large electric dipole moments of heavy leptons.

Abstract

In many models of CP violation, the electric dipole moment (EDM) of a heavy charged or neutral lepton could be very large. In models in which the EDMs scale as the cube of the mass, as well as in vectorlike models, a 100 GeV heavy lepton can have an EDM as large as 0.01e fermi. This could dominate the electromagnetic properties of heavy leptons. The angular distribution and production cross section of charged and neutral heavy leptons with large EDMs is calculated and discussed. The interesting possibility that a heavy neutrino with a large EDM could leave an ionization track in a drift chamber is investigated.