Constraints from the CHARM experiment on heavy neutral leptons with tau mixing

Iryna Boiarska (Discovery Center, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark) ; Alexey Boyarsky (Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands) ; Oleksii Mikulenko (Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands) ; Maksym Ovchynnikov (Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands)

We reanalyze the results of the searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) by the CHARM experiment. We study HNL decay channel Ne+eν/μ+μν and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL’s mixings with νe or νμ, the same data also implies limits on the HNLs that mix only with ντ and have masses in the range 290 MeV<mN1.6 GeV: the region in the parameter space that was considered in the literature as a target for HNLs searches.

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      "value": "We reanalyze the results of the searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) by the CHARM experiment. We study HNL decay channel <math><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>\u2192</mo><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>\u2212</mo></mrow></msup><mi>\u03bd</mi><mo>/</mo><msup><mrow><mi>\u03bc</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><msup><mrow><mi>\u03bc</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>\u2212</mo></mrow></msup><mi>\u03bd</mi></mrow></math> and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL\u2019s mixings with <math><msub><mi>\u03bd</mi><mi>e</mi></msub></math> or <math><msub><mi>\u03bd</mi><mi>\u03bc</mi></msub></math>, the same data also implies limits on the HNLs that mix only with <math><msub><mi>\u03bd</mi><mi>\u03c4</mi></msub></math> and have masses in the range <math><mrow><mn>290</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>MeV</mi><mo>&lt;</mo><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub><mo>\u2272</mo><mn>1.6</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math>: the region in the parameter space that was considered in the literature as a target for HNLs searches."
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Published on:
23 November 2021
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 104 (2021)
Issue 9
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.095019
arXiv:
2107.14685
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Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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