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 and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL’s mixings with or , the same data also implies limits on the HNLs that mix only with and have masses in the range : the region in the parameter space that was considered in the literature as a target for HNLs searches.