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1 Erratum to: Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79:84 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6563-4
In the first paragraph of Sect. 4, the sentence “Without loss of generality, we assume the CP-conserving scenario” is incorrect. In fact, our results correspond to a value of \(\delta _{CP}=1.5\,\pi \) for the CP-violating phase of the PMNS matrix of three Dirac neutrinos.
We also missed in our numerical programs a 1/2 factor associated with our Eq. (108), where it must be taken, corresponding to the average over the initial spin states of the charged lepton.
In addition to this, we were setting our weak decay constants at the Z boson mass scale, while this should be done in the Thompson limit, as correctly pointed out in Ref. [1]. Our results were written in terms of \(\frac{G_F^4 s_w^4}{4\pi ^4}\) and theirs using \(\frac{\alpha ^2 G_F^2}{8 M_W^4\pi ^2}\). While both are formally equivalent, evaluating at the \(M_Z\) scale instead of in the low-energy limit implies a correction increasing \(\sim 15\%\) all our original results.
Therefore, the combined effect of both issues yields \(\sim 42\%\) smaller branching ratios than we originally quoted. The corrected version of our Tables 1, 2 and 3 is given as follows
The main conclusion of our work remains unchanged and it has been corroborated by Ref. [1]. That is, contrary to Ref. [3] and in agreement with [2], we found that the \(\tau \rightarrow \ell \ell '\ell '\) branching ratios in the standard model with massive neutrinos are completely negligible.
We are grateful to P. Blackstone, M. Fael and E. Passemar for pointing out these errors to us.
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Hernández-Tomé, G., López Castro, G. & Roig, P. Erratum to: Flavor violating leptonic decays of \(\tau \) and \(\mu \) leptons in the Standard Model with massive neutrinos. Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 438 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7935-5
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