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We study the impact of the inverse seesaw mechanism on several low-energy flavour violating observables such as τ → μμμ in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. As a consequence of the inverse seesaw, the contributions of the right-handed sneutrinos significantly enhance the Higgs-mediated penguin diagrams. We find that different flavour violating branching ratios can be enhanced by as much as two orders of magnitude. We also comment on the impact of the Higgs-mediated processes on the leptonic B-meson decays and on the Higgs flavour violating decays.
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Abada, A., Das, D. & Weiland, C. Enhanced Higgs mediated lepton flavour violating processes in the supersymmetric inverse seesaw model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 100 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2012)100
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