Search for a Heavy Neutrino in τ Decays at Belle.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
24 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 25 12 2022
revised: 13 07 2023
accepted: 13 10 2023
medline: 11 12 2023
pubmed: 11 12 2023
entrez: 10 12 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We report on a search for a heavy Majorana neutrino in the decays τ^{-}→π^{-}ν_{h}, ν_{h}→π^{±}ℓ^{∓}, ℓ=e, μ. The results are obtained using the full data sample of 988  fb^{-1} collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e^{+}e^{-} collider, which contains 912×10^{6}  ττ pairs. We observe no significant signal and set 95% CL upper limits on the couplings of the heavy right-handed neutrinos to the conventional standard model left-handed neutrinos in the mass range 0.2-1.6  GeV/c^{2}. This is the first study of a mixed couplings of heavy neutrinos to τ leptons and light-flavor leptons.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38072609
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.211802
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

211802

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