Abstract
We study the lepton flavor violation (LFV) in tau decays in the framework of the supersymmetric seesaw mechanism with nonholomorphic terms for the lepton sector at a large tan β. In particular, we analyze two new decay modes τ→ f0(980) and τ→ K+K- arising from the scalar boson exchanges contrast to τ→ η(′) from the pseudoscalar ones. We find that the decay branching ratios of the two new modes could be not only as large as the current upper limits of O(10-7), but also larger than those of τ→ η(′). Experimental searches for the two modes are important for the LFV induced by the scalar-mediated mechanism. In addition, we show that the decay branching ratios of τ→ μ+μ- are related to those of τ→ η and τ→ f0(980). © 2006 The American Physical Society.