CP violating lepton asymmetries in left-right models

Lepton charge asymmetries can be used as an alternative means of searching for new physics. They are interesting because they are small in the Standard Model and therefore, necessarily evidence new physics. In this work we explore the use of lepton asymmetries as a probe of the flavour structure of the left-right symmetric model with spontaneous CP violation. We find that new physics may enhance the magnitude of alpha(SL) up to the present level within the appropriate parameter space. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.