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We study the impact of heavy vector-like leptons on several observables in collider and low-energy physics. These states, present in many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model, can induce lepton flavour violation and non-standard Higgs decays. We study these effects in a model inspired by the composite Higgs scenario. After deriving bounds on the mass and production cross-section of the vector-like states using recent LHC data on multilepton searches, we discuss the modification of the Higgs decays to dilepton, diphoton and Zγ final states as well as low-energy observables like radiative lepton decays, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the electric dipole moment of the electron. We find several interesting correlations. In particular, we show that branching fractions of lepton flavour-violating Higgs decays at an observable level are prohibited due to the strong bounds on the radiative lepton decays.
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Falkowski, A., Straub, D. & Vicente, A. Vector-like leptons: Higgs decays and collider phenomenology. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 92 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)092
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