Probing leptonic CP phases in LFV processes

We Study a CP and T violating triple (spin) correlation in the muon to electron conversion in nuclei in the context of the seesaw mechanism. After concluding that the results are negative for all three seesaw types, we turn to the left-right symmetric theories as the original source of seesaw. We find that in general this correlation is of order one which offers a hope of observing CP violation in lepton flavor violating processes for a L-R scale below around 10-30 TeV. We discuss the conditions that could tender to (unlikely) conspiracies as to suppress the CP violating effects. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.